South Africa and Lesotho (SAL) have been inhabited by tool-producing hominins for at least
two million years. Most of the information we have about the activities and technological …

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 …

Cultural transmission (CT) is implicit in many explanations of culture change. Formal CT
models were defined by anthropologists 30 years ago and have been a subject of active …

The cultural reproduction of lithic technology, long an implicit assumption of archaeological
theories, has garnered increasing attention over the past decades. Major debates ranging …

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between metric variability of ceramic
vessels of a single type and intensity of production. This relationship is examined on the …

The cities of the Indus civilization were expansive and planned with large-scale architecture
and sophisticated Bronze Age technologies. Despite these hallmarks of social complexity …

Securely dated archaeological sites from key regions and periods are critical for
understanding early modern human adaptive responses to past environmental change …

The Acheulean, sometimes known as 'the great handaxe tradition', is the longest-lasting
entity in the human cultural record. The oldest sites are in Africa at around 1.6 million years …

We present the results of a technological and morphometric analysis of all the Still Bay
points (n= 371) recovered from the 1993 to 2004 excavations at Blombos Cave. We have …

This paper introduces the volume by considering what skill is and how archaeologists have
looked at issues of skill in stone tool production, along with anthropological and …