Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii 1 Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology 1 2 Late Pleistocene Foragers of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains 23 3 Occupation Span and Residential Mobility 58 4 The Reoccupation Problem 99 5 Stone Age Supply-Side Economics 110 6 Bifaces, and So On: Modeling the Design of Tools and Toolkits 142 7 On the Optimal Production of Trash 177 8 Mathematics, Lithic Technology, and Paleoindians 213 Appendix: Site Occupancy and Camp Area 233 Notes 237 References 241 Index 267  ...