Convergent evolution in stone-tool technology / edited by Michael J. O'Brien, Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren.

Other author O'Brien, Michael J. (Michael John), 1950-
Other author Buchanan, Briggs (Briggs Wheeler)
Other author Eren, Metin I., 1982-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2018.
Descriptionx, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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SeriesVienna series in theoretical biology
Contents Issues in archaeological studies of convergence / Michael J. O'Brien, Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren -- Limits on the possible forms of stone tools : a perspective from convergent biological evolution / George R. McGhee -- The transparency of imitation versus emulation in the middle palaeolithic / R. Alexander Bentley -- Why convergence should be a potential hypothesis for the emergence and occurrence of stone-tool form and production processes : an illustration using replication / Metin I. Eren, Briggs Buchanan, and Michael J. O'Brien -- Technical constraints on the convergent evolution of technologies / Mathieu Charbonneau -- Being a carnivorous hominin in the lower paleolithic : a biological perspective on convergence and stasis / Daniel E. Lieberman -- Reduction constraints and shape convergence along tool ontogenetic -- Trajectories : an example from late holocene projectile points of southern Patagonia / Judith Charlin and Marcello Cardillo -- Convergence and continuity in the initial upper paleolithic of Eurasia / Steven L. Kuhn and Nicolas Zwyns -- The point is the point : emulative social learning and weapon manufacture in the middle stone age of South Africa / Jayne Wilkins -- Small, sharp and standardized : global convergence in backed-microlith technology / Chris Clarkson, Peter Hiscock, Alex Mackay, and Ceri Shipton -- The convergent evolution of serrated points on the Southern Plains' woodland border of central North America / Ashley Smallwood, Heather Smith, Charlotte Pevny, and Thomas A. Jennings -- Clovis and Toyah : convergent blade technologies on the Southern Plains -- Periphery of North America / Thomas A. Jennings and Ashley M. Smallwood -- The "levallois-like" technological system of the western stemmed tradition : a case of convergent evolution in early North American prehistory / Loren G. Davis and Samuel C. Willis -- Assessing the likelihood of convergence among North American projectile-point types / Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren, and Michael J. O'Brien.
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ISBN9780262037839 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)