LEADER 04441nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910958509003321 005 20251116180933.0 010 $a1-299-19210-6 010 $a0-8165-9952-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038713 035 $a(OCoLC)842860047 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10654973 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000943951 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11501258 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000943951 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10982353 035 $a(PQKB)10708951 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26042 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3411796 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10654973 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL450460 035 $a(OCoLC)923438714 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3411796 035 $a(BIP)46498983 035 $a(BIP)26984018 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038713 100 $a20090402d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aToward a behavioral ecology of lithic technology $ecases from Paleoindian archaeology /$fTodd A. Surovell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTucson $cUniversity of Arizona Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aFirst issued as a paperback edition 2011. 311 08$a0-8165-2810-1 311 08$a0-8165-0738-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aToward a behavioral ecology of lithic technology -- Late Pleistocene foragers of the northern Plains and Rocky Mountains -- Occupation span and residential mobility -- The reoccupation problem -- Stone Age supply-side economics -- Bifaces, and so on : modeling the design of tools and toolkits -- On the optimal production of trash -- Mathematics, lithic technology, and Paleoindians -- Appendix: Site occupancy and camp area. 330 $aModern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and colonized more than 99 percent of the Earth's habitable landmass in doing so. Yet there currently exist only a handful of informal models derived from ethnographic observation, experiments, engineering, and "common sense" to explain variability in archaeological lithic assemblages. Because the fundamental processes of making, using, and discarding stone tools are, at root, exercises in problem solving, Todd Surovell asks what conditions favor certain technological solutions. Whether asking if a biface should be made thick or thin or if a flake should be saved or discarded, Surovell seeks answers that extend beyond a case-by-case analysis. One avenue for addressing these questions theoretically is formal mathematical modeling. Here Surovell constructs a series of models designed to link environmental variability to human decision making as it pertains to lithic technology. To test the models, Surovell uses data from the analysis of more than 40,000 artifacts from five Rocky Mountain and Northern Plains Folsom and Goshen complex archaeological sites dating to the Younger Dryas stadial (ca. 12,600-11,500 years BP). The primary result is the production of powerful new analytical tools useful to the interpretation of archaeological assemblages. Surovell's goal is to promote modeling and explore the general issues governing technological decisions. In this light, his models can be applied to any context in which stone tools are made and used. 606 $aPaleo-Indians$zGreat Plains 606 $aPaleo-Indians$zRocky Mountains 606 $aSocial archaeology$zGreat Plains 606 $aSocial archaeology$zRocky Mountains 606 $aHuman ecology$zGreat Plains$xHistory 606 $aHuman ecology$zRocky Mountains$xHistory 606 $aStone implements$zGreat Plains 606 $aStone implements$zRocky Mountains 607 $aGreat Plains$xAntiquities 607 $aRocky Mountains$xAntiquities 615 0$aPaleo-Indians 615 0$aPaleo-Indians 615 0$aSocial archaeology 615 0$aSocial archaeology 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aStone implements 615 0$aStone implements 676 $a978.004/97 700 $aSurovell$b Todd A.$f1973-$01871560 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958509003321 996 $aToward a behavioral ecology of lithic technology$94480442 997 $aUNINA