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

The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most
important adaptive shifts in human evolution. Stone artifact manufacture, large mammal …

This book is the first comprehensive manual on stone artifact analysis, with detailed
examples of how to measure, record and analyse stone tools and stone tool production …

Many agent-based modeling and simulation researchers and practitioners have called for
varying levels of simulation interoperability ranging from shared software architectures to …

Archaeologists are adept at analyzing variation in artifacts. The discipline has well
established and tested methods to track change through time and to evaluate the function of …

This paper provides an up-to-date history of archaeological computer simulation, starting
with the early 1970s simulation models, but paying particular attention to those developed …

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 …

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 role of raw material quality in Oldowan technology has not been fully explored. There
are numerous studies suggesting Oldowan hominins preferred certain types of stone for …