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Manufacturing Symbolism of Macrolytic Stone Tools in the Yamnaya Culture Funeral Rite of Southern Urals and Middle Volga Region

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023
The paper summarizes for the first time a special study data of macrolithic stone tools from the burials of the Yamnaya culture in the Western Orenburg and the Samara Volga regions.
Nina L. Morgunova, Airat A. Faizullin
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Grooved stone tools from Calabria region (Italy): Archaeological evidence and research perspectives

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2016
Since the end of the 19th century the Calabria region in southern Italy has been known for an abundance of grooved stone axes and hammers used during late prehistory.
Felice Larocca, Francesco Breglia
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Traceological Study of Stone Tools in the Settlement of Saka Time Abilay, Central Kazakhstan

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2021
According to modern data, about 60 small settlements have been discovered on the territory of Central Kazakhstan, dating back to the time of the Tasmola culture (VIII–V centuries BC).
Beisenov Arman Z.   +2 more
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A Dataset Describing the Manufacturing of Stone Tools Over 3 Million Years

open access: yesJournal of Open Archaeology Data, 2023
This dataset is the product of an attempt to summarize the complexity and variability of tool-making sequences spanning the past 3 million years of hominin evolution.
Jonathan Paige, Charles Perreault
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From Implement to Outcrop: a model for identifying implement source rock at outcrop

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2009
Traditionally, the sourcing of prehistoric stone tools in Britain has been done most successfully by comparing the petrological and geochemical characteristics of individual stone tools with rock and debitage from known prehistoric quarry sites and stone
Amy Davis, Vin Davis, Mik Markham
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The stone-to-metal transition reflected in the Iron Age copper production sites of Timna Valley, Israel.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Metalwork was a major technological innovation that displaced stone-tool technologies and transformed human society and the environment. However, our understanding of these processes remains partial.
Ron Shimelmitz, Erez Ben-Yosef
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New Mesolithic Sites of the Lower Volga Region

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023
The paper publishes materials of the new Mesolithic sites in the Lower Volga region. The research relevance is due to the fact that this period is less studied than the others.
Tatiana Yu. Grechkina   +2 more
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Function Follows Form: Assessing the Functionality of Shells and Greenstone Shell Effigies as Formative Period Mesoamerican Textile Fabrication Tools, Part 1: Tagelus plebeius Atlantic Stout Razor Clam Shells

open access: yesEXARC Journal, 2022
Although the importance of textiles in Mesoamerica from the Classic period (AD 250-900) onward is well-recognised, until recently little research or exploration of earlier Mesoamerican textile production has been conducted. This paucity of scholarship is
Billie J. A. Follensbee
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Stone tools in the economic activity of the population of the Late Bronze Age in the forest-steppe zone of the Tobol river basin

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2017
The article presents the results of a complex analysis of stone tools from the sites of the Late Bronze Age in the forest-steppe zone of the Tobol river basin. The new data were obtained due to using petrographic, typological, traceological methods. They
Kostomarova Yu.V.
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The Invention of Stone Tools

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper was written to study the development of stone tools technology throughout the Paleolithic. It finds the technology developed with the simplest discoveries being made first and more complex discoveries being made later. The chemical structure and the properties of the raw materials determined that stone tools could be useful to humans and ...
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