Archaeology has much to contribute to the study of cultural evolution. Empirical data at
archaeological timescales are uniquely well suited to tracking rates of cultural change …

Abstract Several hundred Middle Palaeolithic (MP) archaeological sites have now been
identified in the Arabian Peninsula. However, the study of lithic raw material properties and …

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 …

This paper presents the results of the study of raw material procurement on two late Middle
Paleolithic sites, Katta Sai 1 and Katta Sai 2, located in the western Tian Shan piedmont …

The importance of obsidian from the northern Patagonian source at Las Cargas is reflected
in its early use (∼ 8000 years BP) and extensive geographic diffusion but is nonetheless …

Explanations for the use of pots as practical domestic tools permeate the literature of
technological adoption and change. While many arguments focus on the economic merits of …

In studies of flaked stone tools, the “quality” of lithic raw material has often been assessed
from a viewpoint of its suitability to lithic production, and several studies examined such raw …

Raw material provenance and procurement studies are an essential research line to infer
landscape exploitation, mobility dynamics and territorial management among prehistoric …

Abstract Although the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the Levant is known for changes
in multiple aspects of archaeological records such as lithic technology, subsistence …

The field-processing model (FPM) relates degree of resource processing at procurement site
to round-trip travel distance. Typically applied to food getting, its extension to stone tools is …