Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies

Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies provides a
detailed examination of the Paleolithic procurement and utilization
of the most durable material in the worldwide archaeological
record. The volume addresses sites ranging in age from some of the
earliest hominin occupations in eastern and southern Africa to late
Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene occupations in North American and
Australia. The Early Paleolithic in India and the Near East, the
Middle Paleolithic in Europe, and the Late Paleolithic in Europe
and eastern Asia are also considered.

The authors include established researchers who provide
important synthetic statements updated with new information. Recent
data are reported, often by younger scholars who are becoming
respected members of the international research community. The
authors represent research traditions from nine countries and
therefore provide insight into the scholarly present as well as the
Paleolithic past. Attempts are frequently made to relate lithic
procurement and utilization to the organization of societies and
even broader concerns of hominin behaviour. The volume re-evaluates
existing interpretations- in some instances by updating
previous work of the authors -and offers provocative new
interpretations that at times call into question some basic
assumptions of the Paleolithic.

This book will be invaluable reading for advanced students and
researchers in the fields of palaeolithic archaeology,
geoarchaeology, and anthropology.

Auteur

Brooke Blades has conducted archaeological research and
excavations for more than three decades in various temporal and
geographic contexts in eastern North America and in western Europe.
He held a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship to conduct archaeological
research in Northern Ireland in 1979-80. His research in western
Europe has been generously supported by the American Philosophical
Society, International Relations and Exchanges Board (IREX), the
National Science Foundation, and New York University.

Brian Adams is currently Assistant Director of the Public
Service Archaeology & Architecture Program in the Anthropology
Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His
research interests include lithic analysis, microwear analysis of
lithic artifacts, hunter-gatherer adaptations, and the Middle to
Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe. He has conducted research
at Palaeolithic sites in Central Europe and Egypt, as well as
prehistoric and early historic sites in the Midwest USA.

Résumé
Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies provides a detailed examination of the Paleolithic procurement and utilization of the most durable material in the worldwide archaeological record. The volume addresses sites ranging in age from some of the earliest hominin occupations in eastern and southern Africa to late Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene occupations in North American and Australia. The Early Paleolithic in India and the Near East, the Middle Paleolithic in Europe, and the Late Paleolithic in Europe and eastern Asia are also considered. The authors include established researchers who provide important synthetic statements updated with new information. Recent data are reported, often by younger scholars who are becoming respected members of the international research community. The authors represent research traditions from nine countries and therefore provide insight into the scholarly present as well as the Paleolithic past. Attempts are frequently made to relate lithic procurement and utilization to the organization of societies and even broader concerns of hominin behaviour. The volume re-evaluates existing interpretations­ in some instances by updating previous work of the authors ­and offers provocative new interpretations that at times call into question some basic assumptions of the Paleolithic.

This book will be invaluable reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of palaeolithic archaeology, geoarchaeology, and anthropology.

Contenu

Part I: Regional Landscape Perspectives.

1. Raw materials and techno-economic behaviors at Oldowan and
   Acheulean sites in the West Turkana region, Kenya (Sonia
   Harmand).

2. Patterns of lithic material procurement and transformation
   during the Middle Paleolithic in western Europe (Liliane Meignen,
   Anne Delagnes, and Laurence Bourguignon).

3. Revisiting European Upper Paleolithic raw material transfers:
   the demise of the cultural ecological paradigm? (Jehanne
   Féblot-Augustins).

4. Raw materials for chipped stone artifacts: state of the art
   in the Carpathian Basin of central Europe (Kati Biró).

5. Upper Paleolithic toolstone procurement and selection across
   Beringia (Kelly Graf and Ted Goebel).

6. Reduction, recycling, and raw material procurement in western
   Arnhem Land, Australia (Peter Hiscock).

Part II: Technological and Assemblage Variability.

7. Paleolithic exploitation of rounded and sub-angular
   quartzites in the Indian Subcontinent (Parth Chauhan).

8. Filling the void: lithic raw material utilization during the
   Hungarian Gravettian (Viola Dobosi).

9. Technological efficiency as adaptive behavior among
   Paleolithic hunter-gatherers: evidence from la-Côte, Caminade
   Est, and le Flageolet I, France (Stephen Cole).

10. Trash: the structure of Great Basin Paleoarchaic debitage
    assemblages in western North America (Rebecca Kessler, Charlotte
    Beck, and George Jones).

Part III: Micro-landscape Perspectives.

11. Reconstructing landscape use and mobility in the Namibian
    Early Stone Age using operations analysis (Grant McCall).

12. Changing the face of the earth: human behavior at Sede Ilan,
    an extensive Lower-Middle Paleolithic quarry site in Israel (Ran
    Barkai and Avi Gopher).

13. Aurignacian core reduction and landscape utilization in the
    vicinity of la Ferrassie, France (Brooke Blades).

14. Oblazowa and Hlomcza: two Paleolithic sites in the
    North Carpartians Province of southern Poland (Pawel
    Valde-Nowak).

15. Raw material economy and technological organization at
    Solvieux, France (Linda Grimm and Todd Koetje).

Part IV: Hominid Cognition, Adaptation, and Cultural
Chronology.

16. Inferring aspects of Acheulean sociality and cognition from
    biface technology in the Hunsgi-Baichbal valley of India (Ceri
    Shipton, Michael Petraglia, and K. Paddayya).

17. Quina procurement and tool production (Peter Hiscock, Alain
    Turq, Jean-Philippe Faivre, and Laurence Bouguignon).

18. The impact of lithic raw material quality and
    post-depositional processes on cultural/chronological
    classification: the Hungarian Szeletian case (Brian Adams).

19. Raw material durability, function, and retouch in the Upper
    Paleolithic of the Transbaikal region (Karisa Terry, William
    Andrefsky, and Mikhail Konstantinov).

20. Clovis and Dalton: unbounded and bounded systems in the
    Midcontinent of North America (Brad Koldehoff and Thomas
    Loebel).