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Book review: Fractures in Knapping
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016 The book 'Fractures in Knapping' by Are Tsirk (2014) is apropos at a time when ‘shape matching’ to typological holotypes is de rigueur. Thus, a book that outlines the fractographic and fracture mechanic principles behind chaîne opératoire and ...
Paul Richard Preston
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New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari +6 more
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Skhul lithic technology and the dispersal of Homo sapiens into Southwest Asia
, 2019 The Levantine sites of Skhul and Qafzeh have been interpreted as indicating an early, short and unsuccessful expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa. Chronometric age estimates, however, indicate a history of prolonged occupation, and suggest that Skhul (
Groucutt, Huw S +11 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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The Iceman's lithic toolkit: Raw material, technology, typology and use. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The Tyrolean Iceman, a 5,300-year-old glacier mummy recovered at the Tisenjoch (South Tyrol, Italy) together with his clothes and personal equipment, represents a unique opportunity for prehistoric research.
Ursula Wierer +7 more
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski +2 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Investigating why hominins adopted particular flake technologies during the Mid‐to‐Late Pleistocene is essential to understanding patterns of lithic innovation. This period witnessed the emergence of Levallois technologies (~350–250 ka) and later blades, each “replacing” earlier forms.
Anna Mika, Alastair Key
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Bringing behaviour into focus: archaic landscapes and lithic technology
, 2004 This paper focuses on moving beyond characterization of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in terms of thetechnology and typology of lithic artefacts, to address the behaviour and cognitive capabilities of theArchaic hominid communities of which the ...
Wenban-Smith, Francis
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Using Fire for Woodworking: An Experimental Exploration of Use-Wear on Lithic Tools
Mariel Bencomo is beneficiary of a grant (FPU17/02885) funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spanish Government.Throughout prehistoric times, woodworking was an essential activity.
Bencomo Viala, Mariel +1 more
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Revista de Arqueologia, 2010 On this paper we show records of Pleistocene fauna from the archaeological site of PayPaso 1, located near of the Quarai River. On this site we recovered two extinct species, Equus sp. (ancient horse) e Glyptodon sp.
Rafael Suárez, Guaciara M. Santos
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