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Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Dedication ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Great Ape Tool Use and the Oldowan 1
6. Natural History Intelligence and Hominid Tool Behaviour 13
7. Tempo and Mode in the Palaeolithic: How to Understand the Origins of Culture 31
8. A Game of Inches: An Experimental Approach to Understanding How Atlatl Length Affects Performanc 51
9. Microscopic and Use-Wear Studies Plus Microblade Replication: Experiments with Raw and Heat-Treated Glass Buttes Obsidian 63
10. Making and Understanding Embarras Bipoints: The Replication and Operational Sequencing of a Newly Defined Diagnostic Stone Tool from the Eastern Slopes of Alberta 75
11. Systematic Properties of Stone Tool Reduction: Curation Analysis of Palaeoindian Bifaces and Unifaces 91
12. The Chaîne Opératoire of Ceramic Manufacture and Ceramic Petrography: A Case Study from Rancho del Rio, Northwestern Honduras 107
13. Archaeometric and Non-Archaeometric Techniques and Their Relevance to Understanding Human Behaviour 125
14. Stable Isotope Analysis of Marine Shell to Determine Geographic Provenience: Implications for Prehistoric Trade Route Research 139
15. Molecular Analysis of Ancient Cervid Remains from Two Archaeological Sites: Banff National Park and Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site, Alberta 167
16. Tools for Interpreting Past Plant Use by Subarctic and Northern Northwest Coast Peoples 183
17. Variable Wetland Use at the Mono Lake Basin, Eastern California: Perspectives from a Non-Site Approach 201
18. Fill in the Gap between Theory and Practice: Making a GIS-based Digital Map of Pachacamac 217
19. Economy in Ancient Egypt: The Use of GIS for Understanding Different Spheres of Exchange 237
20. A Space Syntax Analysis of Dohack and Range Phase Villages in the American Bottom 257
21. The Spatial Morphology of Deficient Samples: Applying ‘Spatial String-Matching’ Methods to an Incomplete Data of Vernacular Houses 275
22. Contributors 301
23. Index 307