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The Role of Different Raw Materials in Lithic Technology and Settlement Patterns During the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa

open access: yesAfrican Archaeological Review, 2021
The study of raw materials is an essential step in lithic analysis, regardless of the age, provenance, and technology of the assemblages. As in many other contexts of the Paleolithic, researchers of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in southern Africa have ...
Manuel Will
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lithic Technology and Chronology of Initial Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at Tor Fawaz, Southern Jordan

open access: yesJournal 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   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

New data on lithic technology of Early Neolithic in Northern Italy: refittings from Lugo di Grezzana (VR)

open access: yesIpoTESI di Preistoria, 2020
Lithic technology is an uncommon research tool for investigating the Neolithic lithic industries of northern Italy. In fact, our knowledge about the lithic industries of this period is mainly related to typological descriptions.
Fabio Santaniello   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

MICROBLADE PERCUSSION IN THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC OF MONGOLIA: ON THE PROBLEM OF ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION WITHIN CENTRAL ASIA AND THE FAR EAST

open access: yesТеория и практика археологических исследований, 2021
he focus of this investigation is on the technology of micro-percussion in the Upper Paleolithic of Mongolia. Micro-percussion is defined as the entire assemblage of lithic artifacts associated with the production of microblades.
А.В. Табарев   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tool production and indicators of polyvalent economies during the Upper Holocene in the Jericoacoara 1 archaeological site, Jericoacoara Coastal Plain, West Coast of the State of Ceará, Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2022
The main goal of this study is to offer a preliminary characterization of the lithic industry of Jericoacoara 1, an Upper Holocene archaeological site located in the dune fields of the Jericoacoara National Park on the west coast of the state of Ceará ...
Thalison Santos   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aztec obsidian industries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Obsidian was the primary lithic or stone material used for cutting activities in Aztec society, including domestic food production, craft production, hunting, warfare, and ritual.
Carballo, David M., Pastrana, Alejandro
core   +1 more source

Transitions in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: An Examination of Lithic Assemblages on the Musashino Upland, Tokyo, Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article explains lithic assemblage transitions during the Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) on the Musashino Upland by quantitative comparisons of lithic raw materials, core reduction (blade technology), and formal tool production.
Yamaoka, Takuya
core   +1 more source

Levallois technology in southern Patagonia (Argentina and Chile): current knowledge and future perspectives

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2022
Situated on the extreme point of South America, southern Patagonia has yielded the southernmost evidence of Levallois lithic technology. There, enough evidence of the use of a method of core preparation for production of predefined flakes similarly ...
María Cecilia Pallo
doaj   +1 more source

Fat residue and use-wear found on Acheulian biface and scraper associated with butchered elephant remains at the site of Revadim, Israel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The archaeological record indicates that elephants must have played a significant role in early human diet and culture during Palaeolithic times in the Old World.
A., Zupancich   +5 more
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The color of transformation: Investigations into heat treatment of Natufian artifacts from Hayonim Terrace (Israel) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the Natufian lithic component at Hayonim, both in the cave and the terrace, numerous artifacts of pink/red color may be recognized. Cherts with similar appearance are not present in the geological environment surrounding the site in Northern Israel ...
Delage, C, Sunseri, JU
core   +1 more source

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