Papers in Honor of Lawrence Guy Straus

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

This symposium honors Lawrence Guy Straus’s four decades of research in Paleolithic archaeology and 20 years’ service as the editor of the Journal of Anthropological Research. Straus is best known for his long-term research in the Vasco-Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic, though his 40-year career has seen projects in Belgium, Portugal, and France as well as Spain. His research syntheses have advanced the understanding of long-term behavioral change in Paleolithic societies and influenced two generations of Paleolithic archaeologists. In this session we invite fellow archaeologists to reflect upon the intellectual and personal influence Lawrence’s work has had on our lives and research. The invited papers presented in this session trace Lawrence’s long career and highlight his contributions to Paleolithic research and researchers.

Other Keywords
Upper Paleolithic • Solutrean • Lithic Analysis • Cave • Maya • Mesoamerica • Lithic Technology • Lithics • Curation • Adaptation

Geographic Keywords
Europe • Mesoamerica • North America - Southwest • East/Southeast Asia • West Asia

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  • Documents (11)
Documents
  1. Beers with Lawrence and Insights into Magdalenian Visual Display at El Mirón Cave (2016)
  2. Climate Change and Out of Africa Dispersals (2016)
  3. An early Gravettian point cache from Vale Boi: implications for the arrival of Anatomically Modern Humans to southern Iberia (2016)
  4. Human occupation of Lapa do Picareiro (Portugal) during the Last Glacial Maximum (2016)
  5. The Impact of Lawrence Straus on Mesoamerican Cave Studies (2016)
  6. Late Wurm adaptive systems in Tohoku Japan: viewed from lithic use-wear analysis (2016)
  7. Lawrence Straus on Palaeolithic Art: How to marry art and adaptation? (2016)
  8. Le Volgu: A North American Perspective on a Biface Cache from the French Upper Paleolithic (2016)
  9. Lithics, Landscapes & la Longue-Durée – Curation as an Expression of Forager Mobility (2016)
  10. The Origins of Agriculture and Neolithic in the American Southwest: The View from Western Europe (2016)
  11. Passage through a Palimpsest: Lower Magdalenian Lithic Manufacture and Maintenance Patterns in El Mirón Cave, Cantabria, Spain (2016)