Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change

出版者:Springer International Publishing

作者:Erick Robinson

页数:341

价格:0

装帧:平装

isbn号码:9783319644059

具体描述

The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in technological organization - embracing a wide range of time periods, geographic regions and methodological approaches. As technology brings more refined information on ancient climates, the research on spatial and temporal variability of paleoenvironmental changes. In turn, this has also broadened considerations of the many ways that prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have responded to fluctuations in resource bases. From an archaeological perspective, stone tools and their associated debitage provide clues to understanding these past choices and decisions, and help to further the investigation into how variable human responses may have been. Despite significant advances in the theory and methodology of lithic technological analysis, there have been few attempts to link these developments to paleoenvironmental research on a global scale.

作者简介

Erick Robinson is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He specializes in geochronology, lithic technology, and paleodemography, focusing on hunter-gatherer adaptations to terminal Pleistocene and Holocene environmental change and transitions to agriculture in northern Europe and Western US. He is currently working to develop a comprehensive archaeological radiocarbon database for the US that will be used to reconstruct prehistoric population growth and migration throughout the Holocene.

目录信息

Table of contents (15 chapters)
Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change
Robinson, Erick (et al.)
Pages 1-11
Provisioning Responses to Environmental Change in South Africa’s Winter Rainfall Zone: MIS 5-2
Mackay, Alex (et al.)
Pages 13-36
The South Asian Microlithic: Homo sapiens Dispersal or Adaptive Response?
Clarkson, Chris (et al.)
Pages 37-61
The Hoabinhian of Southeast Asia and its Relationship to Regional Pleistocene Lithic Technologies
Marwick, Ben
Pages 63-78
Horizons of Change: Entanglement of Paleoenvironment and Cultural Dynamics in Australian Lithic Technology
Hiscock, Peter
Pages 79-90
Human Adaptive Responses to Environmental Change During the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Japanese Archipelago
Morisaki, Kazuki (et al.)
Pages 91-122
Isolation, Exploration or Seasonal Migration? Investigating Technological Organization in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of Britain During Marine Isotope Stage 3
Wragg Sykes, Rebecca M.
Pages 123-161
Proto-Aurignacian Lithic Technology, Mobility, and Human Niche Construction: A Case Study from Riparo Bombrini, Italy
Riel-Salvatore, Julien (et al.)
Pages 163-187
Environmental Change and Technological Convergence in Southern Germany
Jochim, Michael
Pages 189-202
Technology and Human Response to Environmental Change at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in Eastern Beringia: A View from Owl Ridge, Central Alaska
Gore, Angela K. (et al.)
Pages 203-234
Technological Change from the Terminal Pleistocene Through Early Holocene in the Eastern Great Basin, USA: The Record from Bonneville Estates Rockshelter
Goebel, Ted (et al.)
Pages 235-261
My Flute Is Bigger Than Yours: Nature and Causes of Technological Changes on the American Great Plains at the End of the Pleistocene
Sellet, Frédéric
Pages 263-279
The Peopling of Southeastern South America: Cultural Diversity, Paleoenvironmental Conditions, and Lithic Technological Organization During the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Suárez, Rafael
Pages 281-300
Changes in the Technological Organization and Human Use of Space in Southern Patagonia (Argentina) During the Late Holocene
Franco, Nora Viviana (et al.)
Pages 301-320
The Costs and Benefits of Technological Organization: Hunter-Gatherer Lithic Industries and Beyond
Shott, Michael J.
Pages 321-333
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