Time, Energy and Stone Tools aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology by demonstrating that theory-building is possible if tool manufacture and use are conceived as products of both environmental factors and social needs. Drawing particularly on optimisation theory in ecology, the eleven contributors examine within a broad spatial and temporal framework a wide range of variable including time, energy, raw materials, risk management and information flow and its place in social relationships. Most concentrate on hunter-gatherer adaptation but key papers examining the impact of agriculture and growing social complexity are also included. A challenging overview by Michael Jochim stresses at once the key role of theory in aiding our understanding of early technology and the embeddedness of tool use in the wider behavioural setting.
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Time, Energy and Stone Tools aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology by demonstrating that theory-building is possible if tool manufacture and use are conceived as products of both environmental factors and social needs.
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This review is from: Time, Energy and Stone Tools (New Directions in Archaeology) (Paperback)
The book has several articles on the manufacture and use of stone tools involving various time periods and cultures. Various theoritical concepts are provided in different analyses of stone tools. The publication provides examples of what can be accomplished with lithic analysis, especially many of the more expedient tools commonly recovered from excavations. .
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- Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest (Santa Fe Institute Series) by Joseph A. Tainter on 4 pages
- Archaeologies of Materiality by Lynn Meskell on page 154, and page 160
- A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape: Southwest Germany in the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) by Michael A. Jochim in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Archaeologies of Materiality by Lynn Meskell on page 154, and page 160
- Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology) by William Andrefsky Jr in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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