Researchers who analyze stone tools and their production debris have made significant
progress in understanding the relationship between stone tools and human organizational …

Grahame Clark's framework for describing stone tool assemblages in terms of five
technological “modes” enjoys wide use in European, African, and Asian prehistory. With …

The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition (~ 400,000 to 200,000 years ago) is marked by
technical, behavioral, and anatomical changes among hominin populations throughout …

The Sierra de Atapuerca sites offer a chronological sequence that allows the evolution of
technology at a local scale during the Early and Middle Pleistocene to be reconstructed. This …

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from
Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current
knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of …

Lithic raw material differences are widely assumed to be a major determining factor of
differences in stone tool morphology seen across archaeological sites, but the security of …

The study of artifacts is fundamental to archaeological research. The features of individual
artifacts are recorded, analyzed, and compared within and between contextual …

The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens are reported from in Africa in association with both late
Acheulian and Middle Stone Age (MSA) artifacts. The relation between the origin of our …