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The life history of stone tools is intimately linked to tool production, use and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology, or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human organizational strategies of land use and subsistence practices. This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints and evolutionary processes. Collectively, they explore the association of technological organization with facets of tool form such as reduction sequences, tool production effort, artifact curation processes and retouch measurement. Data sets cover a broad geographic and temporal span, including examples from France during the Paleolithic, the Near East during the Neolithic, and other regions such as Mongolia, Australia, and Italy. North American examples are derived from Paleoindian times to historic period aboriginal populations throughout the United States and Canada.

Industrie lithique --- Outils préhistoriques --- Histoire --- Tools, Prehistoric. --- Outils de pierre --- Economie de subsistance --- Land use --- Social archaeology --- Stone implements --- Subsistence economy --- Technology --- Tools, Prehistoric --- Implements, Prehistoric --- Implements, utensils, etc., Prehistoric --- Prehistoric implements --- Prehistoric tools --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Cost and standard of living --- Economic anthropology --- Poverty --- Flint implements --- Lithic implements --- Implements, utensils, etc. --- Debitage --- Archaeology --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- History --- Analysis --- Social aspects&delete& --- Methodology --- Social archaeology. --- History. --- Analysis. --- Social aspects --- Outils préhistoriques --- Technologie --- Utilisation du sol --- Archéologie sociale --- Analyse --- Aspect social --- Outils préhistoriques. --- Histoire. --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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In this study Clive Gamble presents and questions two of the most famous descriptions of change in prehistory. The first is the 'human revolution', when evidence for art, music, religion and language first appears. The second is the economic and social revolution of the Neolithic period. Gamble identifies the historical agendas behind 'origins research' and presents a bold alternative to these established frameworks, relating the study of change to the material basis of human identity. He examines, through artefact proxies, how changing identities can be understood using embodied material metaphors and in two major case-studies charts the prehistory of innovations, asking, did agriculture really change the social world? This is an important and challenging book that will be essential reading for every student and scholar of prehistory.

Human beings --- Social evolution. --- Tools, Prehistoric. --- Art, Prehistoric. --- Neolithic period. --- Agriculture --- Material culture. --- Technology and civilization. --- Homme --- Evolution sociale --- Outils préhistoriques --- Art préhistorique --- Néolithique --- Culture matérielle --- Technologie et civilisation --- Origin. --- Origines --- Outils préhistoriques --- Art préhistorique --- Néolithique --- Culture matérielle --- Art, Prehistoric --- Material culture --- Neolithic period --- Social evolution --- Technology and civilization --- Tools, Prehistoric --- Implements, Prehistoric --- Implements, utensils, etc., Prehistoric --- Prehistoric implements --- Prehistoric tools --- Civilization and machinery --- Civilization and technology --- Machinery and civilization --- Civilization --- Social history --- Technology --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Social change --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Folklore --- Antiquity of human beings --- Origin of human beings --- Human evolution --- Prehistoric art --- Art, Primitive --- Origin of agriculture --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Domestication --- Origin --- Philosophy --- History --- Social Sciences --- Archeology