Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation Book

Part I. Introduction, Background, and Review:

1. An introduction to stone tool life history and technological organization William Andrefsky, Jr.;
2. Lithic reduction, its measurement and implications: comments on the volume Michael J. Shott and Margaret C. Nelson;

Part II. Production, Reduction, and Retouch:
3. Comparing and synthesizing unifacial stone tool reduction indices Metin I. Eren and Mary E. Prendergast;
4. Unpacking production, resharpening and hammer type Jennifer Keeling Wilson and Willian Andrefsky, Jr.;
5. The construction of morphological diversity: a study of mousterian implement retouching at Combe Grenal Peter Hiscock and Chris Clarkson;
6. Reduction and retouch as independent measures of intensity Brook Blades;
7. Stone tool perforating and retouch intensity: a neolithic case study Colin Patrick Quinn, William Andrefsky, Jr., Ian Kuijt and Bill Finlayson;
8. Exploring the dart and arrow dilemma: retouch indices as functional determinants Cheryl Harper and William Andrefsky, Jr.;

Part III. New Perspectives on Lithic Raw Material and Technology:
9. Projectile point provisioning strategies and human land-use William Andrefsky, Jr.;
10. The role of lithic raw material availability and quality in determining tool kit size, tool function, and degree of retouch: a case study from skink rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia Douglas H. MacDonald;
11. Raw material and retouched flakes Andrew P. Bradbury, Philip J. Carr and D. Randall Cooper;

Part IV. Evolutionary Approaches to Lithic Technologies:
12. Lithic technological organization in an evolutionary framework: examples fromNorth America's Pacific Northwest region Anna M. Prentiss and David S. Clarke;
13. Changing reduction intensity, settlement and subsistence in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia Chris Clarkson;
14. Lithic core reduction techniques: a model for predicting expected diversity Nathan B. Goodale, Ian Kuijt, Shane MacFarlan, Curtis Osterhoudt and Bill Finlayson.