Constellations of knowledge: Human agency and material affordance in lithic technology

Agency in Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 196-212

  Sinclair, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907572102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (50)

1. Adovasio, J. M., O. Soffer, and B. Klima 1996. "Upper Palaeolithic Fibre Technology from Pavlov I, Czech Republic, c. 26,000 years ago." Antiquity 70: 526-34
2. Avebury, Lord 1913. Prehistoric Times Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages. 7th edn. Williams and Norgate, London
3. Barrett, J. C. 1988. "Field of Discourse: Reconstructing a Social Archaeology." Contextual Archaeology 7: 5-16
4. Bordes, F. 1969. "Traitment Thermique du Silex au Solutreen." Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Frangaise 66: 197
5. Bourdieu, P 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice, trans. R. Nice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
6. Boyle, K. V. 1990. Upper Palaeolithic Faunas of South-West France: A Zoogeographic Perspective. British Archaeological Reports, International Series no. 557, Oxford
7. Bradley, B. A. 1975. "Lithic Reduction Sequences: A Glossary and Discussion," in Lithic Technology: Making and Using Stone Tools, ed. E. Swanson, pp. 5-14. Houghton Mifflin, The Hague
8. Bradley, B. A. 1982. "Lithic Technology," in The Agate Basin Site. A Record of the Palaeoindian Occupation of the North-Western High Plains, ed. G. C. Frison and D. J. Stanford, pp. 175-96. Academic Press, New York
9. Burch, E. S. 1972. "The Caribou/Wild Reindeer as a Human Resource." American Antiquity 37: 339-68
10. Colley, A. M. 1989. "Learning Motor Skills: Integrating Cognition and Action," in Acquisition and Performance of Cognitive Skills, ed. A. M. Colley and J. R. Beech, pp. 173-89. Wiley, Chichester
11. Colley, A. M., and J. R. Beech 1988. "Grounds for Reconciliation: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Cognition and Action," in Cognition and Action in Skilled Behaviour, pp. 1-11. Elsevier Science, North-Holland
12. Craib, I. 1992. Anthony Giddens. Routledge, London
13. Delpech, E 1983. Les Faunes du Paleolithique Superieur dans le Sud-Ouest de la France. Cahiers du Quaternaire no.6. Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris
14. de Mortillet, G., and G de Mortillet 1903. Musee Prehistorique. Schleicher Freres, Paris
15. de Sonneville-Bordes, D., and J. Perrot 1954. "Lexique Typologique du Paleolithique Superieur. Outilage Lithique. I, Grattoirs. II, Outils Solutreens." Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Frangaise 51:327-35
16. Dobres, M.-A. 1995. "Gender and Prehistoric Technology: On the Social Agency of Prehistoric Technologies." World Archaeology 27(1): 25-49
17. Dobres, M.-A., and C. R. Hoffman 1994. "Social Agency and the Dynamics of Prehistoric Technology." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 1(3): 211-58
18. Dougherty, J., and C. M. Keller 1982. "Taskonomy: A Practical Approach to Knowledge Structures." American Ethnologist 5: 763-74
19. Dowling, J. 1965. "Individual Ownership and the Sharing of Game in Hunting Societies." American Anthropologist 70: 502-7
20. Edmonds, M. 1995. Stone Tools and Society. Batsford, London
21. Geneste, J.-M., and H. Plisson 1990. "Technologie Fonctionelle des Points a Cran Solutreens: PApport des Nouvelles Donnees de la Grotte de La Combe Sauniere," in Feuilles de Pierre, ed. J. Kozlowski, pp. 293-320. Etudes et Recherches Archeologiques de l'Universite de Liege no. 42, Liege
22. Gibson, J. J. 1969. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Houghton Mifflin, Boston
23. Giddens, A. 1984. The Constitution of Society. Polity Press, Cambridge UK
24. Girod, A. 1906. Les Stations de VAge du Renne dans les Vallees de la Correze. Bailliare, Paris
25. Goody, J. 1982. Cooking, Cuisine and Class. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
26. Graburn, N. 1976. "Eskimo Art," in Ethnic and Tourist Arts, ed. N. Graburn, pp. 7-35. University of California Press, Berkeley
27. Ingold, T. 1990. "Society, Nature and the Concept of Technology." Archaeological Review from Cambridge 9: 5-17
28. Johnson, M. 1989. "Conceptions of Agency in Archaeological Interpretation." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 8: 189-211
29. Keller, J. D., and C. M. Keller 1991. Thinking and Acting with Iron. Beckman Institute Cognitive Science Technical Reports, University of Illinois, Urbana
30. Kugler, P. N., J. A. S. Kelso, and M. T. Turvey 1982. "On the Control of Naturally Developing Systems," in The Development of Movement and Control, ed. J. A. S. Kelso and J. E. Clark, pp. 27-56. Wiley, New York
31. Leroi-'Gourhan, A. 1965. Le Geste et La Parole II. La Memoire et ses Rythmes. Albin Michel, Paris
32. Mauss, M. 1979 [orig. 1935]. "Body Techniques," in Sociology and Psychology: Essays of Marcel Mauss, trans. B. Brewster, pp. 97-123. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
33. Pfaffenberger, B. 1988. "Fetishised Objects and Humanised Nature: Towards an Anthropology of Technology." Man 23: 236-52
34. Plisson, H. and J.-M. Geneste 1989. "Analyse Technologique des Pointes a Cran Solutreens du Placard (Charente), du Fourneau du Diable, du Pech de la Boissiere et de Combe Sauniere (Dordogne)." Paleo 1: 65-106
35. Rosaldo, R. 1986. "Ilongot Hunting as Story and Experience," in The Anthropology of Experience, ed. V. Turner and E. Bruner, pp. 137-65. University of Illinois Press, Urbana
36. Schlanger, N. 1990. "Techniques as Human Action: Two Perspectives." Archaeological Review from Cambridge 9(1): 18-26
37. Schmidt, P. 1997. Iron Technology in East Africa. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indianapolis
38. Shanks, M. 1993. "Style and Design of a Perfume Jar from an Archaic Greek City State." Journal of European Archaeology 1: 77-106
39. Sigaut, F. 1994. " Technology," in Companion Encyclopaedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life, ed. T. Ingold, pp. 420-59. Routledge, London
40. Smith, P. E. L. 1966. Le Solutreen en France. Memoires de PInstitut de Prehistoire de PUniversite de Bordeaux no.5. Delmas, Bordeaux
41. Smith, P. E. L. 1973. "Some Thoughts on Variations Among Certain Solutrean Artefacts," in Estudios Dedicados al Prof. Dr Luis Pericot, ed. E. Ripoll, pp. 67-75. Disputacion Provincial, Barcelona
42. Sollas, W. J. 1911. Ancient Hunters and their Modern Representatives. Macmillan, London
43. Spector, J. D. 1991. "What this Awl Means: Towards a Feminist Archaeology," in Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, ed. J. M. Gero and M. W. Conkey, pp. 388-406. Blackwell, Oxford
44. Straus, L. G. 1976. "A New Interpretation of the Cantabrian Solutrean." Current Anthropology 17: 342-3
45. Straus, L. G. 1983. El Solutrense Vasco-Cantabrico: Una Nueva Perspectiva. Centro de Investigacfon y Museo de Altamiral Monografia no. 10., Madrid
46. Thieme, H. 1997. "Lower Palaeolithic Hunting Spears from Germany." Nature 385: 807-10
47. Torrence, R. 1989. "Re-Tooling: Towards a Behavioural Theory of Stone Tools," in Time, Energy and Stone Tools, pp. 57-66. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
48. van Andel, T. J. 1998. "Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Environments and 14C Dates Beyond 10,000 B.P." Antiquity 72: 26-33
49. White, R. 1985. Upper Palaeolithic Land Use in the Perigord: A Topographic Approach to Subsistence and Settlement. British Archaeological Reports, International Series no. 253, Oxford
50. Wynn, T. 1994. "Three Levels of Thinking in Technology," in Tools, Language and Communication, ed. T. Ingold and K. Gibson, pp. 393-402. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK