Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies

Rachel A. Horowitz is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. Her research interests include lithic technology, technological organization, economic organization, and the Maya. Her work has been published in several journals and edited volumes including American Antiquity, Paleoanthropology, Journal of Field Archaeology, and Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports.  Grant S. McCall is executive director of the Center for Human-Environmental Research and associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University. His research interests include stone tool technology, human evolution, rock art research, hunter-gatherer ethnology, African prehistory, and political philosophy. He is also the editor of Lithic Technology.

“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