Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology Surovell Todd A.
Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology Surovell Todd A. Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two…
Specifikacia Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology Surovell Todd A.
Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology Surovell Todd A.
Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and colonized more than 99 percent of the Earth's habitable landmass in doing so. Whether asking if a biface should be made thick or thin or if a flake should be saved or discarded, Surovell seeks answers that extend beyond a case-by-case analysis. Yet there currently exist only a handful of informal models derived from ethnographic observation, experiments, engineering, and "common sense" to explain variability in archaeological lithic assemblages.Because the fundamental processes of making, using, and discarding stone tools are, at root, exercises in problem solving, Todd Surovell asks what conditions favor certain technological solutions.
One avenue for addressing these questions theoretically is formal mathematical modeling.Here Surovell constructs a series of
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