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Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change

Global and Diachronic Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Erick Robinson

    1. Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA

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  2. Frédéric Sellet

    1. Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

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  • Links stone tool usage and paleoenvironmental research
  • Includes case studies from the Lower Pleistocene to the Holocene and features archaeological examples from every continent
  • Focuses on paleoenvironmental data that will make it attractive to climatologists, geoarchaeologists, human ecologists and geographers.

Part of the book series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation (STHE, volume 9)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.  

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Erick Robinson

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

    Frédéric Sellet

About the editors

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change

  • Book Subtitle: Global and Diachronic Perspectives

  • Editors: Erick Robinson, Frédéric Sellet

  • Series Title: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64407-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64405-9Published: 17 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87786-0Published: 23 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64407-3Published: 06 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0501

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 341

  • Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts

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