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American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series
American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series. ^A691535
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Need for an Evolutionary Study of Culture History in the Pleistocene -- 1.1.The Paleoanthropological Issue -- 1.2.The Behavioral Issue -- 1.3.The Methodological Issue -- 1.4.The Structure of the Book -- 1.5.Relationship to Previous Work -- 2.Sampling the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition -- 2.1.The Sampling Criteria -- 2.2.An Introduction to the Regional Sequences of the MP-UP Transition -- 2.2.1.Western Europe -- 2.2.2.Central Europe: The Middle Danube -- Sampling Central Europe: The Middle Danube Basin -- 2.2.3.Eastern Europe -- Sampling Eastern Europe: Western Ukraine -- 2.2.4.The Levant -- Sampling the Southern Levant -- 2.2.5.Regions Not Sampled: Southeastern Europe and Anatolia -- 3.Building Bridges from High-Level Theory: Part One of a Middle-Range Theory for Paleolithic Culture History -- 3.1.The Building Blocks: Past Theoretical Treatment of Culture Historical Processes and Artifact Variability -- 3.1.1.Migrationism -- 3.1.2.Boas and the Kulturkreislehre: The Rise of Diffusionism -- 3.1.3.The Americanist Culture History School of Archaeology -- 3.1.4.The Fall of Culture History and the Rise of the Processual Agenda -- 3.1.5.Sources of Artifact Variability: Style Theory from Binford to Wobst to Wiessner -- 3.1.6.Style Theory from Sackett to Lechtman -- 3.1.7.The Nested Nature of Style Theory -- 3.1.8.Approach I: Carr's Unified Middle-Range Theory of Artifact Design -- 3.1.9.Approach II: Chaine Operatoire and the French Technologie School -- 3.1.10.Approach III: Behavioral Archaeology and Behavioral Chain Analysis -- 3.1.11.Approach IV: The Organization of Technology -- 3.1.12.Causation in Artifact Design -- The Problem with Utilitarian Function as a Default Assumption for Artifact Form -- Proximate and Ultimate Evolutionary Mechanisms in Technological Change -- Emic versus Etic Recognition of Artifact Design Variation -- Evolutionary Psychology and Material Culture -- Reinserting Social Function into the Evolutionary Ecology of Lithic Artifact Variation -- 3.1.13.Combining the Four Approaches to Explaining Artifact Variability -- 3.2.Culture History as Evolutionary Process -- 3.2.1.Three of the Four Forces of Evolution -- 3.2.2.Cultural Transmission Theory -- 3.2.3.The Processual Understanding of Culture Historical Mechanisms -- 3.2.4.The Processual Understanding of Culture Contact among Foragers -- The Problem of Scale and the Volkerwanderungen -- Definition of Culture Historical Processes -- 3.2.5.Social Intimacy and the Taskscape Visibility Concept -- The Social Side of the Curation Concept -- How to Choose Appropriate Units of Analysis -- 3.3.Bridging from the Other Bank: The Need to Model Knapper Technological Decisions from the Artifact Up -- 4.Building Bridges from Low-Level Theory: Part Two of a Middle-Range Theory for Paleolithic Culture History -- 4.1.Which Methodology: French, American, or Neither? -- 4.2.What We Know the Knapper Chooses During the Flintknapping Process -- 4.2.1.Conceptual Modeling of the Observational Learning of the Flintknapping Process -- 4.2.2.Lessons Learned from Experimental Archaeology -- 4.2.3.Changes in the Number of Domains Necessitated by the Taskscape Visibility Concept from Chapter 3 -- 4.3.To Make a Stone Soup: The Description of the Technological Signature for Blank Production -- 4.3.1.Domain 1. Core Modification -- Domain 1. Step 1. Core Orientation -- Domain 1. Step 2. Core Management -- 4.3.2.Domain 2. Platform Maintenance -- Domain 2. Step 1. Debitage Platform Treatment -- Domain 2. Step 2. Exterior Platform Angle -- Domain 2. Step 3. Platform Thickness -- 4.3.3.Domain 3. Direction of Core Exploitation -- Domain 3. Step 1. Direction of Early Exploitation -- Domain 3. Step 2. Direction of Late Exploitation -- 4.3.4.Domain 4. Dorsal Surface Convexity -- Domain 4. Step 1. Elongation of the Longitudinal Convexity (Length/Width Ratio) -- Domain 4. Step 2. Shape of Convexity: Debitage Lateral Edges -- Domain 4. Step 3. Curvature of the Convexity: Profile -- Domain 4. Step 4. Debitage Cross-section Types -- Domain 4. Step 5. Vertical Convexity (Width/Thickness Ratio) -- 4.4.Description of the Morphology of the Tool Kit -- Step 1. Tool Laminarity (Length/Width Ratio) -- Step 2. Tool Vertical Convexity (Width/Thickness Ratio) -- Step 3. Shape of Cutting Edges: Lateral Edge Type -- Step 4. Shape of the Distal Terminus -- Step 5. Curvature of the Cutting Edge: Blank Profile -- Step 6. Application of Unique Retouch -- Step 7. |
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Location of Retouch as Tool Types -- 4.5.Evaluating the Statistical Independence of the Units of Analysis -- 4.6.Evaluating the Comparability of Assemblages -- 4.7.Procedures for the Pair-wise Comparison of Assemblages -- 4.8.Connecting the Bridging Arguments between High-level and Low-level Theory -- 4.8.1.Cultural Transmission versus Independent Innovation: The Model Predictions -- 4.8.2.Expectations of the Three Hypotheses -- Expectation Number 1 (Antecedents: Continuity in Technical Choices) -- Expectation Number 2 (Number of Changes in Technical Choices) -- Expectation Number 3 (Number of Domains Affected by Change) -- Expectation Number 4 (Enculturation versus Stimulus Diffusion) -- Expectation Number 5 (Parsimony of the Inter-regional Sequence) -- 4.8.3.Evaluation of the Goodness of Fit -- 5.Regional Patterns of Behavior: Central Europe -- 5.1.Kulna Cave, Layer 7a -- 5.1.1.Site Background -- 5.1.2.Sampling -- 5.1.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 5.1.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 5.2.Stranska skala IIIa, Layer 4 -- 5.2.1.Site Background -- 5.2.2.Sampling -- 5.2.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 5.2.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 5.3.Stranska skala III, Layer 5 -- 5.3.1.Site Background -- 5.3.2.Sampling -- 5.3.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 5.3.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 5.4.Vedrovice V -- 5.4.1.Site Background -- 5.4.2.Sampling -- 5.4.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity System -- 5.4.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 5.5.Stranska skala IIIc -- 5.5.1.Site Background -- 5.5.2.Sampling -- 5.5.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 5.5.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 5.6.Aurignacian Industries from Stranska skala IIa Layer 4 and IIIa Layer3 -- 5.6.1.Site Background -- 5.6.2.Sampling -- 5.6.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 5.6.4.Tool Manufacture -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 5.7.Comparison of Central European Flintknapping Behaviors -- 5.7.1.Kulna Layer 7a versus Stranska skala IIIa Layer 4 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 5.7.2.Stranska skala IIIa Layer 4 and Stranska skala III Layer 5 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 5.7.3.Stranska skala III Layer 5 versus Vedrovice V -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 5.7.4.Stranska skala IIIa Layer 4 and Stranska skala IIIc -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 5.7.5.Stranska skala III Layer 5 versus Stranska skala IIIc -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 5.7.6.Stranska skala IIIc versus Vedrovice V -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 5.7.7.Vedrovice V and the Aurignacian of Stranska skala IIIa-3 and IIa-4 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 5.7.8.Stranska skala III Layer 5 versus the Aurignacian of Stranska skala IIa and IIIa -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 5.7.9.Kulna Layer 7a versus Vedrovice V -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 5.8.Significance of the Central European Sequence for Model Expectations 1-4 -- 6.Regional Patterns of Behavior: Eastern Europe -- 6.1.Molodova V Layer 11 -- 6.1.1.Site Background -- 6.1.2.Sampling -- 6.1.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 6.1.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 6.2.Korolevo II Complex II -- 6.2.1.Site Background -- 6.2.2.Sampling -- 6.2.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 6.2.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 6.3.Korolevo I Layer la -- 6.3.1.Site Background -- 6.3.2.Sampling -- 6.3.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 6.3.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 6.4.Comparison of Eastern European Flintknapping Behaviors -- 6.4.1.Molodova V Layer 11 versus Korolevo II Complex II -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 6.4.2.Korolevo II Complex II versus Korolevo I Layer la -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 6.5.Significance of the Eastern European Sequence for Model Expectations 1-4 -- 7.Regional Patterns of Behavior: The Levant -- 7.1.Kebara Cave Unit VI -- 7.1.1.Site Background -- 7.1.2.Sampling -- 7.1.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 7.1.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 7.2.Boker Tachtit Level 1 -- 7.2.1.Site Background -- 7.2.2.Sampling -- 7.2.3.Blank Production (A Reply to Marks 2003 and Belfer-Cohen and Goring-Morris 2003) -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 7.2.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- |
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Note continued: Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 7.3.Boker Tachtit Level 2 -- 7.3.1.Site Background -- 7.3.2.Sampling -- 7.3.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 7.3.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 7.4.Boker Tachtit Level 4 -- 7.4.1.Site Background -- 7.4.2.Sampling -- 7.4.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 7.4.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 7.5.Kebara Cave Unit IV -- 7.5.1.Site Background -- 7.5.2.Sampling -- 7.5.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 7.5.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 7.6.Kebara Cave Unit III -- 7.6.1.Site Background -- 7.6.2.Sampling -- 7.6.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 7.6.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 7.7.Kebara Cave Unit II -- 7.7.1.Site Background -- 7.7.2.Sampling -- 7.7.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 7.7.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 7.8.Kebara Cave Unit I -- 7.8.1.Site Background -- 7.8.2.Sampling -- 7.8.3.Blank Production -- Core Modification -- Platform Maintenance -- Direction of Core Exploitation -- Dorsal Surface Convexity -- 7.8.4.Tool Kit Morphology -- Intensity of Tool and Core Reduction -- 7.9.Comparison of Levantine Flintknapping Behaviors -- 7.9.1.Comparison of Kebara Cave Unit VI and Boker Tachtit Level 1 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 7.9.2.Comparison of Boker Tachtit Level 1 and Boker Tachtit Level 2 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 7.9.3.Comparison of Boker Tachtit Level 2 and Kebara Cave Unit IV -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 7.9.4.Comparison of Boker Tachtit Level 2 and Boker Tachtit Level 4 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 7.9.5.Comparison of Kebara Cave Unit IV and Unit III -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 7.9.6.Comparison of Kebara Cave Unit III and Boker Tachtit Level 4 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 7.9.7.Comparison of Kebara Cave Unit III and Unit II -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 7.9.8.Comparison of Kebara Cave Unit II and Unit I -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 7.10.Significance of the Levantine Sequence for Model Expectations 1-4 -- 8.Inter-Regional Pattern of Change -- 8.1.Inter-regional Pair-wise Comparisons -- 8.1.1.Comparison of Boker Tachtit Level 1 and Stranska skala IIIa Layer 4 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 8.1.2.Comparison of Boker Tachtit Level 1 and Korolevo II-II -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 8.1.3.Comparison of Stranska skala IIIa Layer 4 and Korolevo II-II -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 8.1.4.Comparison of Boker Tachtit Level 2 and Stranska skala IIIa Layer 4 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 8.1.5.Comparison of Boker Tachtit Level 2 and Korolevo II-II -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 8.1.6.Comparison of Kebara Cave Unit I and the Aurignacian of Stranska skala Ha -- Layer 4 and and IIIa Layer 3 -- Blank Production -- Tool Kit Morphology -- 8.2.An Evaluation of the Inter-regional Sequence of Change -- 8.2.1.The Relevance of Regions Not Sampled in this Research -- 9.Conclusions -- 9.1.Results -- 9.2.Implications for the Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans -- 9.2.1.Symmetric or Asymmetric Transmission -- 9.2.2.Why did the Bohunician Behavioral Package spread between regions? -- 9.2.3.Who made the Bohunician Behavioral Package? -- 9.2.4.Role of the Bohunician Behavioral Package in the Danube Corridor Model -- 9.3.Methodological Contributions of this Research -- 9.3.1.Paths Not Taken: Alternative Structures of Analysis -- 9.4.Predictions for Future Research. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-569) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012042054 |
| ISBN | 9781842175279 |
| ISBN | 1842175270 |
| Standard identifier# |
40022473090 |
