Faculty Publications
Size As A Factor In Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage Variation In The Old World: A North American Perspective
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Lithic Analysis at the Millennium
First Page
137
Last Page
150
Abstract
Conventional views understand assemblage variation in essentialist terms that at correspond to ethnographic patterns at various levels. In North American Palaeoindian data, however, some variation is categorical but much is continuous and some is determined by assemblage size, a factor more often controlled than studied. A similar view emerges in the study of 146 Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from Europe and the Near East. There, degree of tool reduction also explains some variation in proportional frequency of tool 'types'. Despite obvious differences of time and place, similar formation processes operated in the cases. Norm and activity contribute to assemblage variation, but only among other factors like formation processes.
Department
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
Original Publication Date
9-16-2016
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Shott, Michael J., "Size As A Factor In Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage Variation In The Old World: A North American Perspective" (2016). Faculty Publications. 1025.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/1025
