st employed searching "for regularities in the data that are indicative of widespread states and or major evolutionary trends," and that "the study of occupation sites and their contents seems more promising than preoccupation merely with artifact assemblages." (Isaac 1972:200)
             He predicted a shift towards behavioral models.
             In 1977 Isaac published a monograph on Olorgesailie. Lewis R. Binford, reviewing it that year in the Journal of Anthropological Research, was critical, later saying, "While Isaac was an innovator in considering the integrity of deposits yielding traces of early man, he never questioned that the associations among the items found in such modified deposits were all indicative of hominid behavior. He simply accepted the conventional 'wisdom' that they were present because hominids had caused the association." (Binford, 1985:301)
             The part of conventional wisdom that most annoyed Binford was evidently what another author called "the hunting hypothesis" (Ardrey 1976). Alre
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