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Steven L. Kuhn
Researcher at University of Arizona
Publications - 126
Citations - 7503
Steven L. Kuhn is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Upper Paleolithic & Middle Paleolithic. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 120 publications receiving 6700 citations. Previous affiliations of Steven L. Kuhn include Loyola University Chicago & University of New Mexico.
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Differential Burning, Recrystallization, and Fragmentation of Archaeological Bone
TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions under which progressive levels of burning may occur to archaeological bone, and how burning damage changes bones' crystal structure and susceptibility to fragmentation (a.k.a. friability).
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Mousterian Lithic Technology: An Ecological Perspective
TL;DR: Kuhn as mentioned in this paper examined the ecological, economic, and strategic factors that shaped the behaviour of Mousterian tool makers, revealing how these hominids brought technological knowledge to bear on the basic problems of survival.
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A Formal Approach to the Design and Assembly of Mobile Toolkits
TL;DR: This study approaches the problem analytically, making a few simple assumptions about artifact geometry and the relations between utility and artifact size, and finds situations in which artifact functionality is more closely constrained by overall size or mass.
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The Big Deal about Blades: Laminar Technologies and Human Evolution
Ofer Bar-Yosef,Steven L. Kuhn +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the evidence for the production of early blade technologies in Eurasia and Africa dating to the late Lower and the Middle Paleolithic can be found in this article, where the basic techniques for blade production appeared thousands of years before the Upper Paleolithic, and there is no justification for linking blades per se to any particular aspect of hominid anatomy or to any major change in the behavioral capacities of humans.
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What's a Mother to Do? The Division of Labor among Neandertals and Modern Humans in Eurasia
Steven L. Kuhn,Mary C. Stiner +1 more
TL;DR: For example, the rich archaeological record of Middle Paleolithic cultures in Eurasia suggests that earlier hominins pursued more narrowly focused economies, with womens activities more closely aligned with those of men with respect to schedule and ranging patterns than in recent forager systems as mentioned in this paper.