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Lithic technological perspectives on early hominid site use and mobility strategies.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lithic technological perspectives on early hominid site use and mobility strategies./
Author:	McCall, Grant Shields.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2006,
Description:	375 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2623.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-07A.
Subject:	Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3225648
ISBN:	9780542795831

Lithic technological perspectives on early hominid site use and mobility strategies.
McCall, Grant Shields.

Lithic technological perspectives on early hominid site use and mobility strategies. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2006 - 375 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2623.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2006.

This dissertation examines the organization of lithic technological systems for the Early and Middle Stone Age in Africa as a way of making inferences about mobility and site use patterns. I attempt to identify a general set of variables that affect the characteristics of stone tool assemblages. In testing my ideas, I examine a comparative dataset from Africa Stone Age sites centering on my own excavations at Tsoana, Northeastern Namibia. I infer that Early Stone Age sites are almost completely expedient in their characteristics, suggesting that activities using stone tools were done at sites of raw material concentration at the immediate moment of need. I also find that the Middle Stone Age and Middle Paleolithic sites examined in this study show more preparation and planning, and greater "distance" between the moments of manufacture and/or repair and the ultimate use of the object. This pattern is more consistent with technological manufacture at central place location and the provisioning of individuals for foraging forays. I reject the Washburn/Isaac scenario, which suggests that "home bases" were a key characteristic of Plio/Pleistocene hominid behavior as locations of food sharing and related social behavior. Instead, I propose a model of encephalization that sees increasing brain size as a feature of overall generalism and a response to an increase in feeding diversity.

ISBN: 9780542795831Subjects--Topical Terms:

558412
Archaeology.

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