Studying the distribution of lithic raw materials around prehistoric sites, their procurement,
transport, and use, are important for understanding organizational decisions of hunter …

The stone artifact record has been one of the major grounds for investigating our evolution.
With the predominant focus on their morphological attributes and technological aspects of …

Temporal variability in flaking stone has been used as one of the currencies for hominin
behavioural and biological evolution. This variability is usually traced through changes in …

The three authors research surface archaeological records dominated by low-density
scatters and isolated artifacts, archaeological phenomena frequently encountered during …

Artifacts with varying use-lives have different discard rates and hence are represented
unequally among archaeological assemblages. As such, the ability to gauge the use-lives of …

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 …

In the study of Early Pleistocene stone artifacts, researchers have made considerable
progress in reconstructing the technical decisions of hominins by examining various aspects …

Abstract Changes in the ways Paleolithic foragers exploited raw material sources are linked
to mobility, the demands of production, and investment in quarrying. Here, we analyze the …

One of the major challenges in Paleolithic research is disentangling various factors that
contributed to variation in Neandertal technological behavior. As a result of variable …

The site of Skhul in Israel has featured prominently in discussions about the early presence
of Homo sapiens outside of Africa since its excavation in the 1930s. Until now, attention has …