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Archaeological research since its inception has embraced stone technology as a core focus. Stone artifacts have been classified as temporal and spatial markers, as functional tool types, and as markers of social boundaries and categories. As discussion of technology shifts from the material to the behavioral realm, more emphasis is placed on the organization and context of technology. In this sense, technology is the knowledge and practice of making, using, and discarding tools. It involves the organization of materials, tools, and people. This collection of chapters exemplifies recent efforts to examine projectile technology from the latter perspective. I discuss what this shift means for our understanding of stone technology and the directions we appear to be moving in this research. I applaud the dynamic thinking among current researchers that has generated new perspectives and problems to challenge future research.
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Nelson, M.C. (1997). Projectile Points. In: Knecht, H. (eds) Projectile Technology. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1851-2_15
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