Ed., William Andrefsky, Jr. Includes bibliographical references and index. The life history of stone tools is intimately linked to tool production, use, and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human organizational strategies of land use and subsistence practices. This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints, and evolutionary processes. Collectively, they explore the association of technological organization with facets of tool form such as reduction sequences, tool production effort, artifact curation processes, and retouch measurement. Data sets cover a broad geographic and temporal span, including examples from France during the Paleolithic, the Near East during the Neolithic, and other regions such as Mongolia, Australia, and Italy. North American examples are derived from Paleoindian times to historic period aboriginal populations throughout the United States and Canada. # Covers techniques and methods by which stone tools were made # Includes reduction sequences - the time and ways by which the tools were ground down/blunted # Covers artifact life history showing the life cycle of a particular tool, from the time it was made, how it was used, when it was no longer useable because blunted