Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change

   • Erick Robinson, Frédéric Sellet

   Pages 1-11

3. 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

4. The South Asian Microlithic: Homo sapiens Dispersal or Adaptive Response?

   • Chris Clarkson, Michael Petraglia, Clair Harris, Ceri Shipton, Kasih Norman

   Pages 37-61

5. The Hoabinhian of Southeast Asia and its Relationship to Regional Pleistocene Lithic Technologies

   • Ben Marwick

   Pages 63-78

6. Horizons of Change: Entanglement of Paleoenvironment and Cultural Dynamics in Australian Lithic Technology

   • Peter Hiscock

   Pages 79-90

7. Human Adaptive Responses to Environmental Change During the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Japanese Archipelago

   • Kazuki Morisaki, Masami Izuho, Hiroyuki Sato

   Pages 91-122

8. 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

9. Proto-Aurignacian Lithic Technology, Mobility, and Human Niche Construction: A Case Study from Riparo Bombrini, Italy

   • Julien Riel-Salvatore, Fabio Negrino

   Pages 163-187

10. Environmental Change and Technological Convergence in Southern Germany

    • Michael Jochim

    Pages 189-202

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. The Costs and Benefits of Technological Organization: Hunter-Gatherer Lithic Industries and Beyond

    • Michael J. Shott

    Pages 321-333

17. Back Matter

    Pages 335-341

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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.  

• Advancements in Lithic technology
• Australian lithics and environmental change
• British Late Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record
• Changes in technological organization
• Climate change
• Human reactions to environmental change
• climate change impacts

• Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA

  Erick Robinson

• Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

  Frédéric Sellet

Erick Robinson is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He specializes in geochronology, lithic technology, and paleodemography, focusing on hunter-gatherer adaptations to terminal Pleistocene and Holocene environmental change and transitions to agriculture in northern Europe and Western US. He is currently working to develop a comprehensive archaeological radiocarbon database for the US that will be used to reconstruct prehistoric population growth and migration throughout the Holocene.


Frederic Sellet

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