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{"title":"Revisiting the “Mahadevian”: A Typo-technological Reanalysis of the Lithic Assemblages of Mahadeo Piparia, Central Narmada Basin, Madhya Pradesh, India","authors":"Akash Srinivas, Vivek Singh","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2291228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2291228","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139003561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transformation and Sustainability Within Levallois Reduction Strategy of Sürmecik, Western Anatolia/Aegean","authors":"Göknur Karahan, Kadriye Özçelik, Harun Taşkiran","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2290321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2290321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Identification of Jade Work Sawing Microwear Marks and Archaeological Implications for Prehistoric Technology in North China","authors":"Shuwen Ma, Jian Zhang, Wei Du, Longlong Zheng, Tianxing Cui, Songan Jin","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2279348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2279348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139258737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributions and Limitations of a Technomorphometric Approach for Cleavers: The Case of Lanne-Darré (Hautes-Pyrénées)","authors":"Juliette Capdevielle, David Colonge","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2279350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2279350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTResearch relating to cleavers can help to characterize the Middle Pleistocene European technocultural landscape, via a technomorphometric approach that provides insights into this tool’s composite involvement. A sample of 47 cleavers from the Lanne-Darré site were observed through two scales of technomorphometric analyses. When the studied entities are the entire tools, technomorphometric links are rarely perceptible; moreover, attributing them to specific usage is impossible given the current state of knowledge. Edge-scale analysis, however, is able to highlight significant relations between technical choices and shape. The transversal cutting edge specific to cleavers, directly resulting from the blank’s debitage, revealed recurrent morphologic and morphometric similarities, though differences remained in the nature and organization of other cleaver's parts. Four technico-structural tools groups were determined from these heterogeneous organizations, that differ from J. Tixier’s technotypology. Finally, the proposed technomorphometric approach provides new elements for understanding the structural place of cleavers in technical systems .KEYWORDS: Lower palaeolithiclithic technologycleaversLanne-Darréstructural analysisgeometric morphometryangle measurements AcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank Anne-Lyse Ravon and Vincent Mourre for their supervision of Juliette Capdevielle's Master degree, from which this work results. We would also like to thank the entire teaching staff of the ASE2P Master at the Université of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, as well as all the members of the TRACES laboratory. Special thanks to Thomas Perrin for his help with the statistical analyses, and to Marianne Deschamps for giving us the opportunity to make 3D scans of the Lanne-Darré cleavers and for training us in the AGMT-3D software, as part of the Fyssen Morph-Axe project. Thanks to Paula García-Medrano and Antoine Muller for their help in choosing the best tool for measuring edge angles, and in using the Artefact-3D software. Thanks to Jill Cucchi for the help with the translation, and to the ChroTAll project for the support. We would also like to thank the two reviewers for their pertinent feedback, which helped to improve the article considerably.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":"40 22","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136281654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chipped Stone Finds Along the Anatolian Black Sea Coast: Tekkeköy-A Shelter, Samsun, Turkey","authors":"Metin Kartal","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2278995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2278995","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe archaeological studies in the Black Sea Region of Turkey have long been neglected in comparison to other regions in the country. Despite increasing numbers of excavations and surveys regarding the post-prehistoric period, the prehistoric cultural heritage of the region is still not widely known in the archaeological world. Having said that, the Tekkeköy-A Shelter excavation conducted by İ.K.Kökten in the 1940s is one of the oldest archaeological research attempts in the region. Owing to Kökten’s archive and chipped stone collection in the Prehistoric Archaeology Laboratory at Ankara University, we have obtained new information about his studies on Tekkeköy. The Tekkeköy-A chipped stone collection is a group of unique finds for the Anatolian Black Sea. This study primarily focuses on the limited number of chipped stones uncovered from the Kökten archive and the Tekkeköy-A Shelter excavation, and the limited number of Black Sea finds.KEYWORDS: Black SeaAnatoliaTekkeköy-Achipped stone Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 I would like to thank my colleague, Dr. Tristan Carter, for his efforts regarding the above-mentioned analyses of origin.2 In order to make a dating analysis of an archaeological site in Turkey, an official excavation permit must be obtained from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey. So, it is not my responsibility that absolute dating is not done in the Tekkeköy excavations. I was able to study the chipped stone collection in the Kökten Archive because it was at the university, not in the state museum.3 Kartal, Citation2002, Citation2003, Citation2009, Citation2011; Otte et al., Citation1995.4 Kartal, Citation2009, Citation2011; Yalçınkaya et al., Citation2016; Taşkıran et al., Citation2017; Taşkıran et al., Citation2018.5 Demirel et al., Citation2019; Demirel et al., Citation2020; Erbil et al., Citation2020; Erbil et al., Citation2021; Kartal, Citation2019; Kartal et al., Citation2020; Kartal, Citation2019.6 Arbuckle & Erek, Citation2010; Erek, Citation2010, Citation2014.7 Baird et al., Citation2013.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMetin KartalMetin Kartal He completed his archaeology education at Ankara University in 1989. His PhD topic is on the Epi-palaeolithic chipped stone assemblages of Öküzini Cave (Antalya-Turkey) and he graduated in 1999. He has been working at Ankara University since 1990. He became a full professor in 2015.","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":" 33","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135192068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the Gross-Edge Curvature of Experimentally Produced Preferential Levallois Debitage","authors":"Somaye Khaksar, Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren, Gilbert Tostevin","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2270249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2270249","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Flaked stone reduced via a Levallois, or Levallois-like, sequence potentially provided benefits to hominins in terms of flake morphology and economy relative to other sequences. But such benefits did not come without costs. Here, we contribute to ongoing debates regarding Levallois technology by assessing the gross-edge curvature of experimentally produced Levallois debitage and Preferential Levallois Flake (PLF) edges. Previous experiments have shown that as gross-edge curvature increases, cutting efficiency decreases. As such, our results allow us to evaluate standardized gross-edge curvature throughout multiple Preferential Levallois Core reduction stages. Also, among several results, we show that as Levallois debitage size decreases, so too does gross-edge curvature, suggesting that knappers pursuing a Levallois core to exhaustion will not be penalized in terms of this feature.","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":"6 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136316841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"North American Clovis Point Form and Performance V: An Experimental Assessment of Spear Thrusting Penetration Depth and Entry Wound Size","authors":"Jacob Baldino, Scott McKinny, Jaymes Taylor, Michael Wilson, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S. Walker, Brett Story, Michelle R. Bebber, Metin I. Eren","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2270255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2270255","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study is an assessment of Clovis spear thrusting penetration depth and entry wound size. This work is the fifth contribution in a series of experiments aimed at shedding light on the functional performance of distinct Clovis point forms. Here, using highly controlled and standardized procedures, we had a participant who had previously trained with bayonets and hand-to-hand combat thrust seven spears, each tipped with a distinct Clovis point form, into a ballistic gel target. Our statistical analysis of the 203 thrusts revealed, among several findings, that Clovis plan-view form does influence penetration depth and entry wound size. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that the functional selection of attributes could have contributed to Clovis point form variation.KEYWORDS: Clovislithic technologyexperimental archaeologyevolutionary archaeologyNorth America AcknowledgementsWe are appreciative to Julianne Taylor for taking photographs during the experiment. J.B., S.M., J.T., M.R.B., and M.I.E. are supported by the Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences, who generously provided the funding (to M.R.B.) for the ballistics gel in this experiment. We are also appreciative to editor Grant McCall and the three anonymous reviewers whose positive and constructive comments improved our manuscript.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data Availability StatementThe authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article [and/or] its supplementary materials.Notes1 In Eren et al. (Citation2023) we mistakenly reported two different knife handle diameters, one in the text (25.4 mm, i.e., one-inch), and one in Figure 1 (31.7 mm). The correct diameter is 25.4 mm.2 In light of their concluding paragraph (Pettigrew & Bamforth, Citation2023, p. 29), Pettigrew and Bamforth’s (Citation2023:, p. 28) criticism of our work regarding Clovis hunting of live mammoths (Eren et al., Citation2021, Citation2022c) makes little sense when their ballistics research involves dead bison. Based on their logic and published statements, holding these two animal types, and animation states, equal is “untenable” and “highly erroneous” (Pettigrew & Bamforth, Citation2023, p. 28, 29).3 Pettigrew et al. (Citation2023) suggest that kinetic energy (KE) and momentum can be better predictors of projectile penetration than TCSA/TCSP. We do not doubt this hypothesis and believe that it may be correct under specific conditions. Indeed, we have written that non-stone-point factors such as heavier darts or faster velocities “may even largely determine … penetration” (Eren et al., Citation2022c, p. 5). One issue worth mentioning here, however, is that at no point have we ever written that TCSA/TCSP were the predominant factors in projectile penetration. All we have written is that TCSA/TCSP correlates with penetration all else being equal (including KE, which in some circumstanc","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135567959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Variable Perspectives on “Standardization in the Stone Age”","authors":"J. Pargeter, Huw S. Groucutt","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2267386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2267386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":"86 1","pages":"327 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Broad-Spectrum Foraging, Trade, and Lithic Technology: A First Approach to the Slab Stone Tools from Prehispanic Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina","authors":"Gisela Sario, Marcos Salvatore, Florencia Costantino, Sebastián Pastor, Matías E. Medina","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2262785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2262785","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe article presents the study of the slab stone tools collected at the San Roque locality (Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina), a poorly known tool type that merits more detailed studies. . The assemblage was also analyzed from a technological-functional point of view, but the source of raw materials was also investigated to infer the range of past mobility and/or the size of trade networks. The major cost of tools was represented by the systematic acquisition of the raw material from the quarries located 25–200 km rather than by manufacturing. Technological attributes and use-wear on active edges suggest that they were broad-functional tools linked to the need for a broad-spectrum adaptative strategy that required diverse tools for processing a wide variety of foodstuff and their by-products. The landfall of crop plant cultivation ca. 1200 years BP, probably increased the need for this tool type, reinforcing pre-existent trade networks for raw material acquisition. .KEYWORDS: Lithic technologyHolocenebroad-spectrum foraging basetool stonesquarries AcknowledgmentOur acknowledgment also extends to Museo Arqueológico Numba Charava, Reserva y Laboratorio Achala Sacate, Agencia Córdoba Cultura, J. Sfragulla, G. Guraieb, J. Montegú, M. Leipus, D. Rivero, J. Belardi, R. Barberena, L. Tissera, M. Gritti, I. Traktman and M. Traktman, who provided professional advice, equipment and replied to our numerous requests to improve the original text.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba [Proyecto CONSOLIDAR 33620190100011CB], the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [PIP 11220200100770CO] and of the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica [grant number 2016-201-0677].Notes on contributorsGisela SarioGisela Sario is an Adjunt Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Professor of the Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). She got the degree of Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) in 2011. She is focusing his research on the Late Holocene foragers and horticuralist from Southern Punilla Valley. There, she has been leading research grant-funded projects since 2018, where she carried out archaeological surveys, stratigraphic excavations, and the analysis of multiple evidence, including lithic, pottery remains, and architecture. Moreover, she also made significant contributions to the archaeological knowledge of early peopling of the Americas in Sierras de San Luis, a neighboring mountain range from Sierras of Córdoba. She published the results of her research in high-impact peer-reviewed journals from Argentina, Chile, Spain, Italy, the USA, the UK, and Germany.Marcos SalvatoreMarcos Salvatore is Geologist of the Comisión Nacio","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135194828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New Analysis of Unifacially Shaped Technology from the Tropical Lowlands of Colombia","authors":"Marina González-Varas, Carlos E. López, Martha C. Cano","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2257409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2257409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe Middle Magdalena River Valley in central Colombia provides evidence of early human occupation between 13000 and 12000 cal BP during the global Younger Dryas period, characterized by mixed lithic industries involving both bifacial and unifacial technology. This article describes a unifacially shaped artifact discovered in the locality of Puerto Berrío, Antioquia, Middle Magdalena, central Colombia. Due to its high diagnostic value, a detailed technological analysis of its manufacture is presented to enable comparisons with similar artifacts in South America. Techno-structural analysis reveals a complexly manufactured piece with different tools, suggesting different usages. Various manifestations of this type of highly curated tool have been found in various regions of northern South America during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, indicating that unifacial technology is a characteristic tool type of this stage, beyond projectile points. This article also aims to open a dialogue on what a tropical lithic tool is in its individuality and variability.KEYWORDS: Middle Magdalena river valleyearly peopling of the AmericasColombiaunifacial technologycurated technology AcknowledgmentsWe deeply appreciate the help of our colleagues at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (UTP) during the collection analysis stay. We would like to thank the support of the Fundación de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Nacionales and the Temple University (TU) of Philadelphia, USA. We would also be grateful to express a special thanks to Marcellus d’Almeida for his recommendations on technical illustrations.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The terminology associated with the description of South American unifacial technology remains problematic. Various authors have been primarily inspired by the original morphological typology of François Bordes (Citation1961). Although many authors have wrongly used the term « limace » to refer to the South American unifacially shaped tools, « limace » refers to a specific type of south american tool with specific morphological, technological and structural features, as recent defined by Lourdeau (Citation2010, Citation2015) and Moreno & López (Citation2023).Additional informationFundingThis work is part of M. González-Varas’s doctoral research, which has received financial support from the AnTET Team (Anthropologie des techniques, des espaces et des territoires au Pliocène et au Pléistocène) and the UMR 7041 ArScAn Equipe AnTET (Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité)","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135148890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}