Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change: Global and Diachronic Perspectives

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The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in technological organization - embracing a wide range of time periods, geographic regions and methodological approaches.​ ​As technology brings more refined information on ancient climates, the research on spatial and temporal variability of paleoenvironmental changes. In turn, this has also broadened considerations of the many ways that prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have responded to fluctuations in resource bases. From an archaeological perspective, stone tools and their associated debitage provide clues to understanding these past choices and decisions, and help to further the investigation into how variable human responses may have been. Despite significant advances in the theory and methodology of lithic technological analysis, there have been few attempts to link these developments to paleoenvironmental research on a global scale. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change (Erick Robinson, Frédéric Sellet)....Pages 1-11 Provisioning Responses to Environmental Change in South Africa’s Winter Rainfall Zone: MIS 5-2 (Alex Mackay, Emily Hallinan, Teresa E. Steele)....Pages 13-36 The South Asian Microlithic: Homo sapiens Dispersal or Adaptive Response? (Chris Clarkson, Michael Petraglia, Clair Harris, Ceri Shipton, Kasih Norman)....Pages 37-61 The Hoabinhian of Southeast Asia and its Relationship to Regional Pleistocene Lithic Technologies (Ben Marwick)....Pages 63-78 Horizons of Change: Entanglement of Paleoenvironment and Cultural Dynamics in Australian Lithic Technology (Peter Hiscock)....Pages 79-90 Human Adaptive Responses to Environmental Change During the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Japanese Archipelago (Kazuki Morisaki, Masami Izuho, Hiroyuki Sato)....Pages 91-122 Isolation, Exploration or Seasonal Migration? Investigating Technological Organization in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of Britain During Marine Isotope Stage 3 (Rebecca M. Wragg Sykes)....Pages 123-161 Proto-Aurignacian Lithic Technology, Mobility, and Human Niche Construction: A Case Study from Riparo Bombrini, Italy (Julien Riel-Salvatore, Fabio Negrino)....Pages 163-187 Environmental Change and Technological Convergence in Southern Germany (Michael Jochim)....Pages 189-202 Technology and Human Response to Environmental Change at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in Eastern Beringia: A View from Owl Ridge, Central Alaska (Angela K. Gore, Kelly E. Graf)....Pages 203-234 Technological Change from the Terminal Pleistocene Through Early Holocene in the Eastern Great Basin, USA: The Record from Bonneville Estates Rockshelter (Ted Goebel, Aria Holmes, Joshua L. Keene, Marion M. Coe)....Pages 235-261 My Flute Is Bigger Than Yours: Nature and Causes of Technological Changes on the American Great Plains at the End of the Pleistocene (Frédéric Sellet)....Pages 263-279 The Peopling of Southeastern South America: Cultural Diversity, Paleoenvironmental Conditions, and Lithic Technological Organization During the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene (Rafael Suárez)....Pages 281-300 Changes in the Technological Organization and Human Use of Space in Southern Patagonia (Argentina) During the Late Holocene (Nora Viviana Franco, Luis Alberto Borrero, George A. Brook, María Virginia Mancini)....Pages 301-320 The Costs and Benefits of Technological Organization: Hunter-Gatherer Lithic Industries and Beyond (Michael J. Shott)....Pages 321-333 Back Matter ....Pages 335-341