To all,
There are a number of interesting papers that can be downloaded free from the webpage of the Anthropology Department at the University of Mississippi. I note of particular interest to some, certainly, is a pdf publication of:
Robert G. Elston and Steven L. Kuhn, Editors. 2002. "Thinking Small: Global Perspectives on Microlithization". Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Number 12.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Thinking Small Globally. Steven L. Kuhn and Robert G. Elston.
Chapter 1. Small Things Remembered: Origins of Early Microlithic Industries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Stanley H. Ambrose.
Chapter 2. Backed Bladelets Are a Foreign Country. Angela E. Close.
Chapter 3. Going Microlithic: A Levantine Perspective on the Adoption of Microlithic Technologies. Michael P. Neeley.
Chapter 4. Why Microliths? Microlithization in the Levant. Anna Belfer-Cohen and Nigel Goring-Morris.
Chapter 5. Selecting Small: Microlithic Musings for the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic of Western Europe. Lawrence Guy Strauss.
Chapter 6. Pioneers of Microlithization: The "Proto-Aurignacian" of Southern Europe. Steven L. Kuhn.
Chapter 7. Cheap, Regular, and Reliable: Implications of Design Variation in Late Pleistocene Japanese Microblade Technology. Peter Bleed.
Chapter 8. Microlithic Technology in Northern Asia: A Risk-Minimizing Strategy of the Late Paleolithic and Early Holocene. Robert G. Elston and P. Jeffrey Brantingham.
Chapter 9. The "Microblade Adaptation" and Recolonization of Siberia During the Late Paleolithic. Ted Goebel.
Chapter 10. Microblades and Migrations: Ethnic and Economic Models in the Peopling of the Americas. David R. Yesner and Georges Pearson.
Chapter 11. Pattern and Context in the Holocene Proliferation of Backed Artifacts in Australia. Peter Hiscock.
Chapter 12. Thinking Big About Small Tools. Robin Torrence.
The monograph contains ~190 pages and I've included the Table of Contents above mostly because I should warn that this pdf is approximately 3.5 million bytes, and will likely take considerable time to download for all but those equipped with the latest high-speed tech computer systems.
The URL for the Univ. of Mississippi Anthropology webpage is:
http://www.olemiss.edu/research/anthropology/or to down load the "Thinking Small: Global Perspectives on Microlithization" monograph direct:
http://www.olemiss.edu/research/anthropology/ap3a/ap3a12.pdfEnjoy it while it's available,
Dar
