Robert G. Elston and Steven L. Kuhn, Editors
Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Number 12
Contents
Introduction: Thinking Small Globally
Steven L. Kuhn and Robert G. Elston
Small Things Remembered: Origins of Early Microlithic Industries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stanley H. Ambrose
Backed Bladelets Are a Foreign Country
Angela E. Close
Going Microlithic: A Levantine Perspective on the Adoption of Microlithic Technologies
Michael P. Neeley
Why Microliths? Microlithization in the Levant
Anna Belfer-Cohen and Nigel Goring-Morris
Selecting Small: Microlithic Musings for the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic of Western Europe
Lawrence Guy Straus
Pioneers of Microlithization: The “Proto-Aurignacian” of Southern Europe
Steven L. Kuhn
Cheap, Regular, and Reliable: Implications of Design Variation in Late Pleistocene Japanese Microblade Technology
Peter Bleed
Microlithic Technology in Northern Asia: A Risk-Minimizing Strategy of the Late Paleolithic and Early Holocene
Robert G. Elston and P. Jeffrey Brantingham
The “Microblade Adaptation” and Recolonization of Siberia during the Late Upper Pleistocene
Ted Goebel
Microblades and Migrations: Ethnic and Economic Models in the Peopling of the Americas
David R. Yesner and Georges Pearson
Pattern and Context in the Holocene Proliferation of Backed Artifacts in Australia
Peter Hiscock
Thinking Big about Small Tools
Robin Torrence
List of Contributors
Thinking Small: Global Perspectives on Microlithization
ISBN 1-931303-09-6
2002
iii + 191 pages
8-1/2 x 11
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