Time, Energy and Stone Tools

List of contributors Preface 1. Tools as optimal solutions Robin Torrence 2. From shopper to celt: the evolution of resharpening techniques Brian Hayden 3. The occupational history of sites and the interpretation of prehistoric technological systems: an example from Cedar Mesa, Utah Eileen Camilli 4. Trade or embedded procurement?: a test case from southern Illinois Carol A. Morrow and Richard W. Jefferies 5. Economies in raw material use by prehistoric hunter-gatherers Robert Jeske 6. Lithic technology and mobility strategies: the Koster site Middle Archaic Rochelle Lurie 7. Re-tooling: towards a behavioural theory of stone tools Robin Torrence 8. A cost-benefit study of the functionally similar tools Roger A. Boydston 9. Reliable and maintainable technological strategies in the Mesolithic of mainland Britain Andrew Myers 10. Assessing social information in material objects: how well do lithics measure up? Joan M. Gero 11. Optimisation and stone tool studies: problems and potential Michael A. Jochim References Index.