Nathan Goodale, visiting instructor of anthropology, published his paper titled "Lithic Core Reduction Techniques: Modeling Expected Diversity," with co-authors Ian Kuijt (University of Notre Dame), Shane Macfarlan (Washington State University), Curtis Osterhoudt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), and Bill Finlayson (Council for British Research in the Levant). The paper is published in a volume edited by William Andrefsky Jr. titled Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation.
The volume stems from a session at the 71st Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting in 2006. The paper utilizes principles from evolutionary theory applied to human behavior in order to discuss what circumstances should produce a high degree of variation and what circumstances should produce a low degree of variation. The authors linked a mathematical model to describe systems with parameters of the quality and quantity of stone raw materials, ratio of producers to consumers, and how evolution via natural selection operates on human behavior shaping stone tool reduction processes.
The volume stems from a session at the 71st Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting in 2006. The paper utilizes principles from evolutionary theory applied to human behavior in order to discuss what circumstances should produce a high degree of variation and what circumstances should produce a low degree of variation. The authors linked a mathematical model to describe systems with parameters of the quality and quantity of stone raw materials, ratio of producers to consumers, and how evolution via natural selection operates on human behavior shaping stone tool reduction processes.
