1 Analytical Approaches to Palaeolithic Technologies: An
Introduction ................................................. 1
Stephen J. Lycett and Parth R. Chauhan
2 A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of Plan Shape in Bone
and Stone Acheulean Bifaces from the Middle Pleistocene
Site of Castel di Guido, Latium, Italy ...................... 23
August G. Costa
3 Regional Diversity Within the Core Technology of the
Howiesons Poort Techno-Complex .............................. 43
Chris Clarkson
4 Questioning the Link Between Stone Tool Standardization
and Behavioral Modernity .................................... 61
Gilliane F. Monnier and Kieran P. McNulty
5 The Quantitative Analysis of Mobility: Ecological
Techniques and Archaeological Extensions .................... 83
Matt Grove
6 Metrical Variability Between South Asian Handaxe
Assemblages: Preliminary Observations ...................... 119
Parth R. Chauhan
7 Quantifying Variation in Landscape-Scale Behaviors:
The Oldowan from Koobi Fora ................................ 167
David R. Braun, Michael J. Rogers, John W. Harris, and
Steven J. Walker
8 The Mathematics of Chaînes Opératoires ..................... 183
P. Jeffrey Brantingham
9 Cultural Transmission, Genetic Models and Palaeolithic
Variability: Integrative Analytical Approaches ............. 207
Stephen J. Lycett
10 Comparing Stone Tool Resharpening Trajectories with the
Aid of Elliptical Fourier Analysis ......................... 235
Radu Ioviţă
11 An Assessment of the Impact of Resharpening on
Paleoindian Projectile Point Blade Shape Using Geometric
Morphometric Techniques .................................... 255
Briggs Buchanan and Mark Collard
12 Stone-Tool Demography: Reduction Distributions in North
American Paleoindian Tools ................................. 275
Michael J. Shott
13 The Future of Lithic Analysis in Palaeolithic
Archaeology: A View from the Old World ..................... 295
John A.J. Gowlett
14 The Future of Paleolithic Studies: A View from the New
World ...................................................... 311
Michael J. O'Brien
Index ......................................................... 335
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