One of the greatest difficulties with evolutionary approaches in the study of stone tools
(lithics) has been finding a mechanism for tying culture and biology in a way that preserves …

The stone artifact record has been one of the major grounds for investigating our evolution.
With the predominant focus on their morphological attributes and technological aspects of …

Considerations of materiality and object-oriented approaches have greatly influenced the
development of archaeological theory in recent years. Yet, Palaeolithic archaeology has …

Recycling behaviors are becoming increasingly recognized as important parts of the
production and use of stone tools in the Paleolithic. Yet, there are still no well-defined …

We use models from human behavioral ecology to examine stone artifacts from 23 sites in
Korea to investigate mobility and site occupation patterns during the Late Pleistocene. This …

The neutral model of stone procurement developed by Brantingham (2003, 2006) provides a
formal means to investigate the formation of lithic discard patterning under changing forager …

Archaeological settlement models involve the identification of functional site types like base
camps and extraction sites based, in part, on differences in the range and frequency of …

Stratified, well preserved sites preserving unambiguous geological and archeological data
from which human-environmental interactions can be reconstructed, are rare. More …

Open-air surface accumulations and scatters of material cultural remains often are perceived
as less-reliable archaeological archives, where it is difficult to distinguish anthropogenic …

Sedentism is an adaptive alternative in human societies which is often associated with the
emergence of complex societies in the Holocene. To elucidate the factors and processes of …