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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, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ultralight large grain porous material - expanded obsidian [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2019
In the production of crushed stone, lithoidal pumice and perlite sand, it is advisable to separate and segregate the obsidian. Wherein, the separated obsidian is converted into production waste.
Safaryan Artsruni, Sargsyan Tamara, Kalantaryan Marine, Melyan Hripsime   +3 more
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Fault textures in volcanic conduits: evidence for seismic trigger mechanisms during silicic eruptions. [PDF]

, 2005
It is proposed that fault textures in two dissected rhyolitic conduits in Iceland preserve evidence for shallow seismogenic faulting within rising magma during the emplacement of highly viscous lava flows. Detailed field and petrographic analysis of such
Dingwell, DB, Tuffen, H
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The unknown Oldowan. ~1.7-million-year-old standardized obsidian small tools from Garba IV, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2015
The Oldowan Industrial Complex has long been thought to have been static, with limited internal variability, embracing techno-complexes essentially focused on small-to-medium flake production. The flakes were rarely modified by retouch to produce small
GALLOTTI, ROSALIA, MUSSI, Margherita
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What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative)
Metin I. Eren, Stephen J. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, Alastair Key, Briggs Buchanan, Emma Finestone, Joseph Benson, Rebecca Biermann Gürbüz, Adela Cebeiro, Roman Garba, Anne Grunow, C. Owen Lovejoy, Danielle MacDonald, Erica Maletic, G. Logan Miller, Joseph D. Ortiz, Jonathan Paige, Justin Pargeter, Tomos Proffitt, Mary Ann Raghanti, Teal Riley, Jeffrey I. Rose, David M. Singer, Robert S. Walker   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

The exploitation of obsidian in the Central Plateau of Santa Cruz, Argentina: Results from La María and Cerro Tres Tetas and a regional perspective

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016
La María and Cerro Tres Tetas archaeological localities are located in the Central Plateau, in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia. This area presents abundant lithic raw materials of very good quality for knapping including flint, chalcedony
Manuel Enrique Cueto, Ariel David Frank, Fabiana Skarbun   +2 more
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Cooperation, collective action, and the archeology of large-scale societies [PDF]

, 2016
Archeologists investigating the emergence of large-scale societies in the past have renewed interest in examining the dynamics of cooperation as a means of understanding societal change and organizational variability within human groups over time. Unlike
Birch J, Blanton RE, Blanton RE, Blanton RE, Bortot S, Boyd R, Carballo DM, Chabot‐Hanowell B, Cobean RH, Ember CR, Feinman GM, Feinman GM, Hirth KG, Hirth KG, Hunt R, Kowalewski SA, Levi M, McCloskey DN, Mezze García M, Nichols DL, Smith ME, Smith ME   +21 more
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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archéométrie de l’obsidienne : déchiffrer la circulation d’une matière première

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2015
In the last fifty years obsidian provenance studies have become important in archaeology. Most of the time, an analytical characterisation is required to determine the origin of raw material.
François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, Carlo Luglié, Céline Bressy-Leandri   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies for obtaining obsidian in pre-European contact era New Zealand. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Archaeological evidence of people's choices regarding how they supply themselves with obsidian through direct access and different types of exchanges gives us insight in to mobility, social networks, and property rights in the distant past.
Mark D McCoy, Jonathan Carpenter
doaj   +1 more source