Journal of Lithic Studies, 2015 The book is the result of a Brazilian symposium which took place in 2007, entitled Lithic technology in Brazil. Theoretical foundations, problems and research perspectives.
João Carlos Moreno de Sousa
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Is Language Necessary for the Social Transmission of Lithic Technology? [PDF]
Journal of Language Evolution, 2019 Recently, a growing number of studies have considered the role of language in the social transmission of tool-making skill during human evolution. In this article, I address this question in light of a new theory of language and its evolution, and review
Dor Shilton
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Reconstructing flexible pathways of Aurignacian blade and bladelet production at Vogelherd. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe beginning of the Upper Paleolithic represents a key period in human history. At this time, we can grasp the technological concepts that Homo sapiens used in the early Upper Paleolithic.
Benjamin Schürch +2 more
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The Iceman's lithic toolkit: Raw material, technology, typology and use. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The Tyrolean Iceman, a 5,300-year-old glacier mummy recovered at the Tisenjoch (South Tyrol, Italy) together with his clothes and personal equipment, represents a unique opportunity for prehistoric research.
Ursula Wierer +7 more
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Missing the point: re-evaluating the earliest lithic technology in the Middle Orinoco. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2018 Riris P, Oliver JR, Mendieta NL.
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A Critical Analysis on the Book Technology of Knapped Stone [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2021 The only translated book into Persian about the classification of archaeological chipped stones is one of the most important technical books named Technology of Knapped Stone by M. Louise-Inizan and colleagues.
Mozhgan Jayez
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Refining Our Understanding of Howiesons Poort Lithic Technology: The Evidence from Grey Rocky Layer in Sibudu Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 de la Peña P.
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Regional patterns of diachronic technological change in the Howiesons Poort of southern Africa.
PLoS ONE, 2020 The Howiesons Poort (HP) of southern Africa plays an important role in models on the early behavioral evolution of Homo sapiens. The HP is often portrayed as a coherent MSA industry characterized by early complex material culture.
Manuel Will, Nicholas J Conard
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School of Rocks: a Transmission Time Investment Model for Pleistocene Lithic Technology
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2023 We propose a transmission time investment model for integrating the tenets of human behavioral ecology and cultural evolutionary theory to investigate agency and optimality in the social transmission of lithic technologies.
T. Kovach, J. Gill
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Here, we present a new method to scan a large number of lithic artefacts using three-dimensional scanning technology. Despite the rising use of high-resolution 3D surface scanners in archaeological sciences, no virtual studies have focused on the 3D ...
Dominik Göldner +2 more
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