Book review: Seeing Lithics: A Middle-range Theory for Testing for Cultural Transmission in the Pleistocene

• Main Author: Katie Davenport-Mackey
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Edinburgh 2015-09-01
• Series: Journal of Lithic Studies
• Subjects: cultural transmission; Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition; evolutionary archaeology; experimental archaeology
• Online Access: http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/1336
• ISSN: 2055-0472

<p><em>Seeing Lithics </em>represents<em> </em>a<em> </em>doctoral thesis submitted to Harvard University by Gilbert Tostevin in 2000. Tostevin is currently a professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota<em> </em>and has written extensively on human evolution, lithic technology, Old World archaeology, and Palaeolithic archaeology. These interests can be clearly seen in this book which develops a new theoretical<em> </em>and analytical approach to the study of cultural transmission in the Middle<em>-</em>Upper Palaeolithic transition. </p>