<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">RAHEMTULLA,</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Modeling technological design for the Early Period at Namu</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1998</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Victoria</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In recent years researchers studying pre-Contact technologies have effectively incorporated aspects of design theory and organization of technology in their work. The focus in these studies is on deciphering the behavioural contexts in which these technologies were operative. Such concepts are presently applied in a research programme which focuses on the chipped lithic technology from the Early Period (ca. 10,000-5,000 BP) at Namu, a large site located on the central coast of British Columbia. One of the goals in this research programme is to explore the variables which potentially contributed to the underlying structure of the Namu lithic technology. This is done through the use of a modeling exercise which posits and evaluates a number of variables, in an attempt to simulate the design of the Namu material.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>