Provisioning the Home

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

One of Kuhn’s most notable contributions to archaeological theory is on the subject of lithic provisioning. Though decisions regarding provisioning might seem simplistic and obvious to us today, as a species completely enmeshed in a world mediated by technology and material culture, equipping oneself with the tools and the raw materials to make them was something our lineage slowly learned over the course of human evolution. Kuhn distinguished between the decision to provision an individual and/or provision a location. This provisioned location was, most often, the home, and the provisioning of the home became a defining characteristic of homemaking. In this paper, I will highlight Kuhn’s contribution to the study of lithic provisioning and trace its trajectory within the Paleolithic, where we can see the roots of this behavior and how it articulated with other decisions regarding mobility and site use.

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• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn

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Abstract Id(s): 50938