Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter One. Working with Archaeological Variability in the Twenty-First Century—Thinking about Materiality, Epistemology, and Ontology - Alan P. Sullivan III and Deborah I. Olszewski
Section I. Advances in Interpreting Regional Archaeological Records
Chapter Two. A Lithic Perspective on Ecological Dynamics in the Upper Pleistocene of Western Eurasia - C. Michael Barton and Julien Riel-Salvatore
Chapter Three. The Significance of “Persistent Places” in Shaping Regional Settlement History: The Case of the Mimbres Mogollon - Barbara J. Roth
Chapter Four. Reductive Technology and the Epipaleolithic of the Middle East and North Africa - Deborah I. Olszewski
Chapter Five. Context and Complexity on the Arid Margins of Australia: Assessing Human Responses to an Unpredictable Environment - Simon J. Holdaway, Justin I. Shiner, Patricia C. Fanning, and Matthew J. Douglass
Chapter Six. Theoretical Implications of Artifact-Scatter Lithic Assemblage Variability for Mobility-Based Models of Technological Organization - Alan P. Sullivan III
Section II. Venerable Sites Revisited
Chapter Seven. Timelessness and the Legacy of Archaeological Cartography - Sissel Schroeder and Lynne Goldstein
Chapter Eight. Sherd Cross-Joins, Ceramic Use-Wear, and Depositional History: Rethinking the Sociopolitical Aftermath of a Collapsed Bronze Age Cistern at Myrtos-Pyrgos, Crete - Emilia Oddo and Gerald Cadogan
Chapter Nine. Estimating the Population Size of Casas Grandes: Empirical Issues and Theoretical Consequences - David R. Wilcox
Chapter Ten. Biface Production at Tabun: Manufacture, Maintenance, and Morphological Variability - Gary O. Rollefson
Section III. Cross-Cultural, Conceptual, and Experimental Perspectives
Chapter Eleven. Celebrating the Dead and Recrafting Social Identity: Placing Prehistoric Mortuary Practices in Broader Social Context - Brian F. Byrd and Jeffrey Rosenthal
Chapter Twelve. Flint from the Ancestors: Ritualized Use of Stone Tools in the Prehistoric Southwest - John C. Whittaker and Kathryn A. Kamp
Chapter Thirteen. Form, Function, and Mental Templates in Paleolithic Archaeology - Philip G. Chase
Chapter Fourteen. The Role of Controlled Experiments in Understanding Variation in Flake Production - Zeljko Rezek, Sam Lin, and Harold L. Dibble
List of Contributors
Index