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The Technological Condition of Human Evolution: Lithic Studies as Basic Science

Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2021
The recent elaboration and rapid expansion of aDNA, paleoproteomics, and related fields have propelled a profound “biomolecular turn” in archaeology and fundamentally changed the topology of archaeological knowledge production.
S. T. Hussain, M. Soressi
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Techno -economy of lithic raw materials in Piedmont (north-western Italy). A first life-like scenario

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2023
Data about Palaeolithic peopling, settlement dynamics and techno-economy of the south-western margin of the Alpine region are sketchy. In this area, the lack of systematic research and the scarcity of lithic raw materials, spread the idea that Piedmont ...
Sara Daffara, G. Berruti, Sandro Caracausi, Maite García‐Rojas, M. Arzarello   +4 more
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Technology from hunting blinds: A study of lithic assemblages in Late Holocene stone structures from Patagonia (Argentina)

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2023
Stone structures called parapetos are a highlighted feature of the archaeological record in central-western Santa Cruz, Patagonia. More than 500 have been registered so far with varied sizes and shapes and clustered in different amounts. They are located
Josefina Flores Coni, G. Cassiodoro
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A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2022
Archaeologists have explored a wide range of topics regarding archaeological stone tools and their connection to past human lifeways through experimentation. Controlled experimentation systematically quantifies the empirical relationships among different
Li Li, Sam C. Lin, Shannon J. P. McPherron, Aylar Abdolahzadeh, Annie Chan, T. Dogandžić, Radu Iovita, G. Leader, M. Magnani, Ž. Režek, H. Dibble   +10 more
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A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe

Journal of maps, 2022
Analysis of prehistoric lithic artefacts helps to answer a wide array of questions concerning archaeological contexts and prehistoric human behaviour.
B. Gehlen, Jehanne Affolter, Werner Schön, Silviane Scharl, F. Siegmund, Anna-Leena Fischer, Mareike Grunert, Christa Meiborg, Doris Mischka, Elke Treude, Thorsten Uthmeier   +10 more
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Lithic Technology and Chronology of Initial Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at Tor Fawaz, Southern Jordan

Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2021
The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is a key chrono-cultural concept in our understanding of the cultural and population dynamics at the transition from the Middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic period.
S. Kadowaki, T. Tamura, Risako Kida, T. Omori, L. Maher, M. Portillo, M. Hirose, Eiki Suga, Sate Massadeh, D. Henry   +9 more
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Time, memory and alterity in prehistoric lithic technology: Synthesis and perspectives of the French technogenetic approach

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2022
The technogenetic approach in the field of prehistoric lithic technology studies originated in the late 1980s. Traditional approaches, such as typology and production technology, have tended to approach prehistoric lithic objects through their socio ...
Louis De Weyer, Antonio Pérez, Rodolphe Hoguin, H. Forestier, E. Böeda   +4 more
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From bedrock to alluvium: Considerations on human-lithic resource interaction

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2022
Although lithic raw material provenience studies in Hungarian archaeology have started in the late 1970s, little attention has been paid to the methods prehistoric people with which acquired these raw materials for tool production.
Zsolt Mester, Norbert Faragó
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Quartzite procurement, not only in fluvial deposits: raw material characterisation of the lithic assemblage from Level XXII-R at El Esquilleu, Cantabrian Region, Spain.

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2022
The consideration of quartzite as a secondary raw material has relegated in-depth research of this raw material in favour of such other rocks as flint or obsidian.
A. Prieto, I. Yusta, Maite García‐Rojas, A. Arrizabalaga, J. Baena Preysler   +4 more
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Lithic variability and raw material exploitation at the Middle Stone Age (MSA) site of Gotera, southern Ethiopia: A combined technological and quantitative approach

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021
Technological variability within East African Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic assemblages is considered a reflection of regional or local identities. These identities are a possible outcome of different social dynamics in human populations or interaction ...
M. Fusco, E. Carletti, M. Gallinaro, A. Zerboni, E. Spinapolice   +4 more
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