Eastern Arctic Under Pressure: From Paleoeskimo to Inuit Culture (Canada and Greenland)

Desrosiers, Pierre; Sørensen, Mikkel

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-2003-3_15

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“…Like punch blade technology, the indentor can be very accurately placed, allowing greater control of blade production. The pressure blade component of this experiment involved a chest crutch and was conducted following extensive experimental and archaeological correlates [40, 132, 134–137]. …”

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Identifying Major Transitions in the Evolution of Lithic Cutting Edge Production Rates

Muller

Clarkson

2016

PLoS ONE

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The notion that the evolution of core reduction strategies involved increasing efficiency in cutting edge production is prevalent in narratives of hominin technological evolution. Yet a number of studies comparing two different knapping technologies have found no significant differences in edge production. Using digital analysis methods we present an investigation of raw material efficiency in eight core technologies broadly representative of the long-term evolution of lithic technology. These are bipolar, multiplatform, discoidal, biface, Levallois, prismatic blade, punch blade and pressure blade production. Raw material efficiency is assessed by the ratio of cutting edge length to original core mass. We also examine which flake attributes contribute to maximising raw material efficiency, as well as compare the difference between expert and intermediate knappers in terms of cutting edge produced per gram of core. We identify a gradual increase in raw material efficiency over the broad sweep of lithic technological evolution. The results indicate that the most significant transition in efficiency likely took place with the introduction of small foliate biface, Levallois and prismatic blade knapping, all introduced in the Middle Stone Age / Middle Palaeolithic among early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. This suggests that no difference in raw material efficiency existed between these species. With prismatic blade technology securely dated to the Middle Palaeolithic, by including the more recent punch and pressure blade technology our results dispel the notion that the transition to the Upper Palaeolithic was accompanied by an increase in efficiency. However, further increases in cutting edge efficiency are evident, with pressure blades possessing the highest efficiency in this study, indicating that late/epi-Palaeolithic and Neolithic blade technologies further increased efficiency.

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Identifying Major Transitions in the Evolution of Lithic Cutting Edge Production Rates

Muller

Clarkson

2016

PLoS ONE

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“…Irving 1957; Plumet 1994). This complex, dating to c. 4000 cal BP (Slaughter 2005), has a pressure microblade component (Desrosiers & Sørensen 2012), as do the earlier Pleistocene and Holocene complexes of Alaska (such as the Denali complex) (Gómez Coutouly 2011a). And yet most researchers believe that the origin of the Palaeoeskimo is not to be found in these earlier Alaskan complexes, but rather in the Neolithic cultures of Siberia, and more specifically in the Syalakh, Belkachi and Ymyakhtakh complexes of Yakutia (e.g.…”

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Migrations and interactions in prehistoric Beringia: the evolution of Yakutian lithic technology

Coutouly

2016

Antiquity

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“…The pressure blade industry which characterises the Late Maglemose Complex is thought to have originated at c. 20,000 cal BP in the area of present-day Siberia/Northern China from where it spread westward to Western Russia 73 , and subsequently into Northern Fennoscandia 39 , 74 , 75 . Results from archaeological studies on the diffusion of pressure blade technology correspond well with genetic studies from Norway and Sweden.…”

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An integrated analysis of Maglemose bone points reframes the Early Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia

Jensen

Sjöström

Fischer

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The extensive peat bogs of Southern Scandinavia have yielded rich Mesolithic archaeological assemblages, with one of the most iconic artefacts being the bone point. Although great in number they remain understudied. Here we present a combined investigation of the typology, protein-based species composition, and absolute chronology of Maglemosian bone points. The majority of the bone points are made from cervids and bovines. However, changes both in species composition and barb morphology can be directly linked to a paucity of finds lasting nearly 600 years in Southern Scandinavia around 10,300 cal BP. We hypothesize that this hiatus was climate-driven and forced hunter-gatherers to abandon the lakes. Furthermore, the marked change in bone points coincides with a change in lithic technology. We, therefore, propose that the Maglemose culture in Southern Scandinavia is fundamentally divided into an Early Complex and a Late Complex.

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Eastern Arctic Under Pressure: From Paleoeskimo to Inuit Culture (Canada and Greenland)

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Identifying Major Transitions in the Evolution of Lithic Cutting Edge Production Rates

Identifying Major Transitions in the Evolution of Lithic Cutting Edge Production Rates

Migrations and interactions in prehistoric Beringia: the evolution of Yakutian lithic technology

An integrated analysis of Maglemose bone points reframes the Early Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia

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