Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies

“The editors have developed a significant new topic that will have broad implications to archaeologists across the world.” —Peter Bleed, emeritus professor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln "A substantial contribution to the study of lithic technology, presenting case studies of stone artifacts in sedentary societies in South Asia, the Near East, Mesoamerica, and North America. . . . the volume demonstrates the important information that lithic artifacts can provide about anthropological questions, such as economic activities, political organization, resource and production management, and the relationship between societal and technological change." —Latin American Antiquity
"Horowitz and McCall and their colleagues do an excellent job of showing that the stone tools found on sites belonging to sedentary food producers or those of urban societies do matter, not least by illustrating the variety of ways in which they can be productively investigated. . . . of interest and value not only to lithic specialists, but also to anthropological archaeologists as a whole." —Journal ofthe Royal Anthropological Institute “The chapters in this volume make substantial contributions to the study of lithic technologies in sedentary societies. . . the unifying economic focus makes this work important to the broader dis­cipline of anthropology.” —Sixteenth Century Journal