Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2024.2366623
Chunqi Tian, Wei Liao, Shuning Zhang, Ziyang Meng, Christopher J. Bae, Wei Wang
{"title":"Victoria West-like Core Technology from Fengshudao, an Early–Middle Pleistocene Site in Bose Basin, South China","authors":"Chunqi Tian, Wei Liao, Shuning Zhang, Ziyang Meng, Christopher J. Bae, Wei Wang","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2024.2366623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2024.2366623","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141685371","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}
Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2024.2341204
Metin I. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber, B. Redmond, Paul Kasten, G. L. Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger
{"title":"Description, Microwear, and Morphometrics of Clovis and Possible-Clovis Lithic Artifacts from the Kasten Site, Erie County, Ohio, USA","authors":"Metin I. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber, B. Redmond, Paul Kasten, G. L. Miller, Briggs Buchanan, Matthew T. Boulanger","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2024.2341204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2024.2341204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140686376","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}
Pub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2024.2334156
Paolo Sferrazza, Pietro Militello
{"title":"Use-wear and Technological Analysis of the Knapped Lithic Assemblage from the Early Bronze Age Hut of Calicantone (Sicily, Italy)","authors":"Paolo Sferrazza, Pietro Militello","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2024.2334156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2024.2334156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140690910","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}
Pub Date : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2024.2303230
Gloria Cattabriga, Marco Peresani
{"title":"Criteria for Identifying Knapping Skill Level Through the Analysis of Lithic Cores: An Example from Val Lastari, Late Palaeolithic, Italy","authors":"Gloria Cattabriga, Marco Peresani","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2024.2303230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2024.2303230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139603301","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}
Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2023.2291228
Akash Srinivas, Vivek Singh
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2023.2290321
Göknur Karahan, Kadriye Özçelik, Harun Taşkiran
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2023.2279348
Shuwen Ma, Jian Zhang, Wei Du, Longlong Zheng, Tianxing Cui, Songan Jin
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2023.2279350
Juliette Capdevielle, David Colonge
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).
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2023.2278995
Metin Kartal
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.
【摘要】土耳其黑海地区的考古研究与国内其他地区相比,长期以来被忽视。尽管对后史前时期进行了越来越多的挖掘和调查,但该地区的史前文化遗产在考古界仍然不为人所知。说到这里,Tekkeköy-A避难所的挖掘工作由İ.K进行。Kökten在20世纪40年代是该地区最古老的考古研究尝试之一。由于Kökten的档案和安卡拉大学史前考古实验室的碎石收藏,我们在Tekkeköy上获得了关于他的研究的新信息。Tekkeköy-A碎块石收藏是安纳托利亚黑海的一组独特发现。这项研究主要集中在Kökten档案馆和Tekkeköy-A避难所挖掘中发现的有限数量的碎块石头,以及数量有限的黑海发现。关键词:Black SeaAnatoliaTekkeköy-Achipped stone披露声明作者未报告潜在利益冲突。我要感谢我的同事特里斯坦·卡特博士为上述来源分析所做的努力为了对土耳其的考古遗址进行年代分析,必须从土耳其共和国文化和旅游部获得正式的挖掘许可证。所以,在Tekkeköy的挖掘中没有进行绝对的年代测定并不是我的责任。我之所以能够研究Kökten档案馆里的碎石收藏品,是因为它在大学里,而不是在州立博物馆里Kartal, Citation2002, Citation2003, Citation2009, Citation2011;Otte et al., Citation1995.4 Kartal, Citation2009, Citation2011;Yalçınkaya等,Citation2016;Taşkıran等,Citation2017;Taşkıran等人,Citation2018.5 Demirel等人,Citation2019;Demirel et al., Citation2020;Erbil et al., Citation2020;Erbil et al., Citation2021;Kartal Citation2019;Kartal et al., Citation2020;Arbuckle & Erek, Citation2010;Erek, Citation2010, Citation2014.7 Baird等,Citation2013。附加信息关于贡献者的说明他于1989年在安卡拉大学完成了他的考古学教育。他的博士课题是关于Öküzini洞穴(土耳其安塔利亚)的旧石器时代晚期的碎块石头组合,他于1999年毕业。他自1990年以来一直在安卡拉大学工作。2015年成为正教授。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2023.2270249
Somaye Khaksar, Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren, Gilbert Tostevin
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.
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