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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"technological organization"”.
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Change in lithic technological organization strategies during the Middle and Later Stone Ages in east Africa
… was to investigate differences in lithic technological organization strategies among archaeological sites dating to the Middle (MSA) and Later (LSA) Stone Ages. The motivation for the project was to better understand how the development of cooperative social networks by modern humans …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… can provide the opportunity to infer the organization of lithic technology associated with communal bison procurement on the Northwestern Plains. The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135) is located in southeastern Rosebud County in southeastern Montana. Due to the low number of previously …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… can provide the opportunity to infer the organization of lithic technology associated with communal bison procurement on the Northwestern Plains. The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135) is located in southeastern Rosebud County in southeastern Montana. Due to the low number of previously …
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Paleoindian Occupations in the Great Basin: A Comparative Study of Lithic Technological Organization, Mobility, and Landscape Use from Jakes Valley, Nevada
… Little is known of the temporal, cultural, and technological behaviors of Western Fluted peoples, while the Western Stemmed Tradition inhabitants are only slightly better understood. This thesis presents the results of intensive technological studies that focused on determining raw material …
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Organization of Technology at the Sanders Site (45KT315): Analysis of Formed Tools from the Yakima Uplands, WA
… and breakage patterns) demonstrate changes in technological organization related to transitions from foraging to collecting strategies by 3000 years ago. This change in technological organization is often explained as a shift from curated to expedient tool use. This change includes collecting …
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Paleoindian technological provisioning in the western Great Basin
… in this study; Further, this thesis examines the technological organization and provisioning strategies represented at these sites in order to address the relative degrees of mobility of early Holocene peoples in the western Great Basin.
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The Forgotten Lands: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems in Transition
… by the prevailing institutional structure and technological organization, both of which require structural reforms aimed to increase growth in national income, productivity, and the degree of export competitiveness. Increasing competitiveness, in turn, requires input reallocation toward more …
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A Techno-Functional Analysis of Early Archaic Lithic Production Debris: Assessing Technological Practice and Settlement in the Middle Savannah River Valley of South Carolina
<p>Current understandings of settlement and technological activity in the Middle Savnnah River Valley of South Carolina suggest that Early Archaic (10,000-8,000 BP) peoples enjoyed a high level of mobility, were focused on high quality, siliceous Coastal Plain chert, and were organized in a …
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Exploring Prehistoric Technology at the Tràng An Landscape Complex, Ninh Bình Province, Vietnam
… design. More recent approaches incorporating technological organization, attribute analysis, and behavioral ecology have proven more profitable for both identifying and interpreting variability in such assemblages and placing tool use in its greater environmental context. Furthermore, stone …
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Technology, Serial Specialists, and Younger Dryas Cold Adaptation in the Northern Great Basin of North America
… BP]) through analyses of perishable and lithic technological organization, seasonality, and settlement strategies. Researchers have debated to the degree to which Younger Dryas cold stress affected the daily lives of North American peoples, acknowledging regional variation. The Great Basin has …
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Variability in the Debitage of the Early Holocene Lithic Assemblages of the Sanders (45KT315) Site
… the selective conditions present in the technological organization of stone tool assemblages at the Sanders site. These conditions were identified by measuring variability in the debitage using mutually exclusive paradigmatic classifications. The classifications measure technological, …
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Clovis Technology and Settlement in the American Southeast
… presents new data on Clovis site occupation, technological organization, and settlement in the American Southeast. Evidence suggests that traditionally-accepted, western-centric models do not fully explain Clovis technological characteristics and settlement patterns in the region. My second …
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Paleoindian Chronology, Technology, and Lithic Resource Procurement at Nesquehoning Creek
… history at Nesquehoning Creek, 2) analyzing the organization of Paleoindian lithic technology, and 3) examining Paleoindian residential mobility patterns in the Middle Atlantic and Northeast regions. The history of research at Nesquehoning Creek, Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene environmental …
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Crescent Hill Chert: A Geological and Cultural Study of a Raw Material Procurement Area in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
… elucidations regarding hunter-gatherer lithic technological organization and land-use can be made. Two archaeological sites in the lowest and driest portion of Yellowstone National Park, the Yellowstone Bank Cache Site (24YE355) and the Airport Rings Site (24YE357), show a heavy reliance on …
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Crescent Hill Chert: A Geological and Cultural Study of a Raw Material Procurement Area in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
… elucidations regarding hunter-gatherer lithic technological organization and land-use can be made. Two archaeological sites in the lowest and driest portion of Yellowstone National Park, the Yellowstone Bank Cache Site (24YE355) and the Airport Rings Site (24YE357), show a heavy reliance on …
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The function, design and distribution of New Zealand adzes
… archaeological adzes. Methodology was guided by technological organization theory which states that technological strategies reflect human behaviours and that artefacts like adzes are physical manifestations of the strategies employed by people to overcome problems posed by environmental and …
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Subsistence, Technology, and Site Use Through Time at 41HY160, the Tee Box Six Locale
… theoretical approach of this study is that technological organization, as identified through lithic analysis, is a proxy indicator of practiced mobility, site use, and, when correlated faunal data, subsistence exploitation strategy. For the Early Archaic it is hypothesized that 41HY160 was …
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Ground stone lithic technology of the Indian Peaks, Colorado, USA
… a distributional approach to archaeology and a technological approach to artifact analysis, the present study addresses the behavioral implications of ground stone tool presence in the high altitudes of the CFR by employing a three-tiered morphological, temporal, and spatial analysis. A …