Preface and Acknowledgments .................................... xi
List of Contributors ......................................... xiii
PART I: INTRODUCTION, BACKGROUND, AND REVIEW
1 An Introduction to Stone Tool Life History and
Technological Organization ................................... 3
WILLIAM ANDREFSKY, JR.
2 Lithic Reduction, Its Measurement, and Implications:
Comments on the Volume ...................................... 23
MICHAEL J. SHOTT AND MARGARET C. NELSON
PART II: PRODUCTION, REDUCTION, AND RETOUCH
3 Comparing and Synthesizing Unifacial Stone Tool Reduction
Indices ..................................................... 49
METIN I. EREN AND MARY E. PRENDERGAST
4 Exploring Retouch on Bifaces: Unpacking Production,
Resharpening, and Hammer Type ............................... 86
JENNIFER WILSON AND WILLIAM ANDREFSKY, JR.
5 The Construction of Morphological Diversity: A Study of
Mousterian Implement Retouching at Combe Grenal ............ 106
PETER HISCOCK AND CHRIS CLARKSON
6 Reduction and Retouch as Independent Measures of
Intensity .................................................. 136
BROOKE BLADES
7 Perforation with Stone Tools and Retouch Intensity:
A Neolithic Case Study ..................................... 150
COLIN PATRICK QUINN, WILLIAM ANDREFSKY, JR., IAN KUIJT,
AND BILL FINLAYSON
8 Exploring the Dart and Arrow Dilemma:
Retouch Indices as Functional Determinants ................. 175
CHERYL HARPER AND WILLIAM ANDREFSKY, JR.
PART III: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LITHIC RAW MATERIAL AND
TECHNOLOGY
9 Projectile Point Provisioning Strategies and Human Land
Use ........................................................ 195
WILLIAM ANDREFSKY, JR.
10 The Role of Lithic Raw Material Availability and Quality
in Determining Tool Kit Size, Tool Function, and Degree
of Retouch: A Case Study from Skink Rockshelter
(46NI445), West Virginia ................................... 216
DOUGLAS H. MACDONALD
11 Raw Material and Retouched Flakes .......................... 233
ANDREW P. BRADBURY, PHILIP J. CARR, AND D. RANDALL
COOPER
PART IV: EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES TO LITHIC TECHNOLOGIES
12 Lithic Technological Organization in an Evolutionary
Framework: Examples from North America's Pacific
Northwest Region ........................................... 257
ANNA MARIE PRENTISS AND DAVID S. CLARKE
13 Changing Reduction Intensity, Settlement, and Subsistence
in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia .................... 286
CHRIS CLARKSON
14 Lithic Core Reduction Techniques: Modeling Expected
Diversity .................................................. 337
NATHAN B. GOODALE, IAN KUIJT, SHANE J. MACFARLAN, CURTIS
OSTERHOUDT, AND BILL FINLAYSON
Index ......................................................... 337
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