Subsections
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- Technological innovations and tool use in the animal world: Tool use by monkeys, apes, birds, mammals and their evolutionary and cultural significances.
- History of ancient human technology (Prehistoric to Protohistoric stages): developmental histories of key technologies by various cultural groups and societies since the last 3 million years; longevity of certain tool types and tool-kits.
- Theoretical concepts: Paleolithic and Chalcolithic lifeways; key technological innovations and their subsequent geographic dispersals; cultural and socio-economic impacts; techno-cultural change and stasis; human ecology and technological adaptations.
- Experiential and experimental archaeology: Replicating stone tools, spears, atlatls, bows & arrows, rock art, pottery, iron slag; testing artifact efficiency and material impact (e.g. stone on meat/bone/wood and vice versa; firing of pottery and utilization for boiling/cooking; making rock paintings using natural minerals/materials)
- Scientific methods: Sourcing raw materials, provenance verses provenience; Systematic project execution; activity documentation and data quantification; microscopic analyses; residue analyses; hypotheses testing; cognitive abilities
- Chapters from edited volumes and articles from such sources as Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory and Journal of Archaeological Science.
- Coles, J. 2010. Experimental Archaeology.
- Flores, J. R., Paardekooper, R. (Eds.) 2014. Experiments Past: Histories of Experimental Archaeology.
- Foulds, F. W. F. 2013. (Ed.) Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approaches to Archaeological Hypotheses.
- Whittaker, J. C. 1994. Flintknapping: Making and understanding stone tools.
