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Élaboration d’un protocole d’expérimentation lithique pour la compréhension des comportements techniques et techno-économiques au Paléolithique moyen

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2009
While experimentation constitutes a useful actualistic resource for analysis and comparison, it is often underestimated and underused in techno-economic approaches to lithic industries.
Michel Brenet, Laurence Bourguignon, Mila Folgado, Illumina Ortega   +3 more
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Technologies of Transition: Pottery Production and Specialization in Early Rome and Its Neighbors. Neutron Activation Analysis of Regional Assemblages and a Mineralogical‐Petrographic Study of Impasto Chiaro‐Sabbioso

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The following paper investigates ceramic production and signs of specialization in Rome and the wider region during the early first millennium bce, through an archaeometric approach using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA), and complementary techniques.
Mattia D'Acri, Maria Verde, Alberto De Bonis, Vincenzo Morra, Brandi L. MacDonald   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Experimental Approach on Pearl Shell (Pinctada margaritifera) for a Microwear Study of Shell Artefacts From French Polynesia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pinctada margaritifera (black‐lipped pearl oyster) artefacts are ubiquitous in the archaeological record throughout the Pacific and particularly in Polynesia. Despite efforts towards the development of typologies, the lack of microwear and use‐wear studies has prevented the development of technological approaches. We used 20 pearl shell valves
Jemma McGloin, Sofia Samper‐Carro, Guillaume Molle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lithic Raw Material Economy in the Mesolithic: An Experimental Test of Edged Tool Efficiency and Durability in Bone Tool Production

, 2017
The foundation of this paper is lithic economy with a focus on the actual use of different lithic raw materials for tasks at hand. Our specific focus is on the production of bone tools during the Mesolithic.
Molin, Fredrik, Kjel Knutsson, Sara Gummesson, Rolf Sundberg, Peter Zetterlund, Knutsson, Kjel, Helena Knutsson, Gummesson, Sara,, Zetterlund, Peter, Fredrik Molin, Knutsson, Helena, Sundberg, Rolf,   +11 more
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Peuplements préhistoriques au Brésil

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2008
Franco-brazilian researchs in Mato Grosso is pointing out two periods of settlements. The first one, dated around 25 000 years ago is characterized by the lithic industry, found with bones of a Glossotherium in a level of Santa Elina Shelter.
Àgueda Vilhena Vialou, Denis Vialou
doaj   +1 more source

Stylistic Study of the Late Mesolithic Industries in Western France: Combined Principal Coordinate Analysis and Use-Wear Analysis

Open Archaeology, 2023
The notion of style has been the subject of much research and theoretical development in prehistoric archaeology. This vast concept touches several fields, including the morphology of artefacts, technical gestures and their function.
Hauguel-Bleuven Lola, Calvo-Gómez Jorge, Marchand Gregor   +2 more
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Exploring Use‐Wear Texture Quantification Through Confocal Microscopy on Tools Made From Volcanic Rocks (Basalt and Phonolite)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Functional analysis is essential for reconstructing lithic tool use. Recent approaches combining confocal microscopy and surface texture analysis provide quantitative alternatives to traditional visual use‐wear analysis, although their application to coarse‐grained, heterogeneous rocks remains challenging because of their complex surface ...
Idaira Brito‐Abrante, Amelia Rodríguez‐Rodríguez, Juan José Ibáñez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is it Time to Retire NASTIES in Southern African? Moving Beyond the Culture-historical Framework for Middle Stone Age Lithic Assemblage Variability

, 2020
The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa provides crucial insight on early Homo sapiens behavioral evolution. Archaeologists have traditionally presented lithic assemblage variability as a sequence of discrete Named Stone Tool Industries (“NASTIES”,
Wilkins, Jayne
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Lithic Industry in Khairkhan Cave, Mongolia

Problems of Archaeology, Ethnography, Anthropology of Siberia and Neighboring Territories
Discovered in 2022 in the southwest of the Khangai Mountains and located in a separate limestone massif, Khairkhan Cave is the only Paleolithic site in the area and the first cave site in the mountainous country in general. Less than 200 km away there is the Khoid-Tsenkheriyn-Agui Cave, known for its Paleolithic paintings.
A.M. Khatsenovich, Ts. Bolorbat, A.M. Klementiev, I.D. Dolgushin, G. Margad-Erdene, B. Gunchinsuren, E.P. Rybin   +6 more
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Ceramic Raw Materials and Technological Choices in Iron Age Tyre (Lebanon): A Multiproxy, Fabric‐Based Approach

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematically integrated, multiproxy characterisation of Iron Age ceramics from Tyre (Lebanon). Ninety‐nine ceramic samples from stratified Iron Age contexts on Tyre's Acropolis, together with a small Late Bronze Age and raw‐clay reference set, were analysed using petrography, microfossil identification, X‐ray ...
Francisco J. Núñez Calvo, Michał Krueger, Violeta Moreno Megías, Jędrzej Proch, Anna Waskowska, Ali Khalil Badawi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source