Focal topics for volumes in the series will include systematic paleontology of all vertebrates
(from agnathans to humans), phylogeny reconstruction, functional morphology, Paleolithic …

This paper examines shape and size variability in Mousterian of Acheulian Tradition (MTA)
handaxes and compares the observed patterns to those in the Lower Paleolithic Acheulian …

Background Recent findings suggest that the North African Middle Stone Age
technocomplex known as the Aterian is both much older than previously assumed, and …

Population dynamics between and within Pleistocene groups are vital to understanding
wider behavioural processes like social transmission and cultural variation. The late Middle …

The emergence of ceramic specialization in past societies is often linked to shifts in the
complexity of social structures, because standardized ceramic production can reflect craft …

The identification of material culture variability remains an important goal in archaeology, as
such variability is commonly coupled with interpretations of cultural transmission and …

Traditional artifact typologies are typically poorly defined. While several attributes usually
help define a “type,” shape is invariably the most important. Here I report on a study that …

Geometric Morphometrics (GM) is a method originally applied in Evolutionary Biology
studies, using the analysis of change in size and shape in order to better understand …

It is long been thought that many flake attributes, including both size and shape, are largely
due to the morphology of a core's flaking surface, yet this has never been tested under …

However they measure stone took, archaeologists typically use orthogonal—mutually
perpendicular—dimensions like length and width. Although useful, orthogonal dimensions …