Les mises en forme de grattoirs carénés / nucléus de l’aurignacien ancien de l’abri Castanet (Sergeac, Dordogne)

Chiotti, Laurent; Cretin, Catherine

doi:10.4000/paleo.2077

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“…A very high frequency of carinated end scrapers was observed in this industry from layer 21 [66] in association with split-base points [49]. Aurignacian used thick flakes (around 3 cm thick) to shape carinated end scrapers [65, 67]. As it was almost impossible to produce such blanks by freehand percussion from the small flint pebbles so distinctive of the Latium region, Aurignacian flintknappers from Fossellone used the bipolar technique to produce them.…”

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Hafting of Middle Paleolithic tools in Latium (central Italy): New data from Fossellone and Sant’Agostino caves

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Hafting of stone tools was an important advance in the technology of the Paleolithic. Evidence of hafting in the Middle Paleolithic is growing and is not limited to points hafted on spears for thrusting or throwing. This article describes the identification of adhesive used for hafting on a variety of stone tools from two Middle Paleolithic caves in Latium, Fossellone Cave and Sant’Agostino Cave. Analysis of the organic residue by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry shows that a conifer resin adhesive was used, in one case mixed with beeswax. Contrary to previous suggestions that the small Middle Paleolithic tools of Latium could be used by hand and that hafting was not needed since it did not improve their functionality, our evidence shows that hafting was used by Neandertals in central Italy. Ethnographic evidence indicates that resin, which dries when exposed to air, is generally warmed by exposure to a small fire thus softened to be molded and pushed in position in the haft. The use of resin at both sites suggests regular fire use, as confirmed by moderate frequencies of burnt lithics in both assemblages. Lithic analysis shows that hafting was applied to a variety of artifacts, irrespective of type, size and technology. Prior to our study evidence of hafting in the Middle Paleolithic of Italy was limited to one case only.

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Hafting of Middle Paleolithic tools in Latium (central Italy): New data from Fossellone and Sant’Agostino caves

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“…The management blanks consist of sub-categories such as crests shaping an artificial or natural pre-existing ridge, asymmetrical blanks laterally struck at the edges of flaking surfaces, overshot blanks removing the distal part of the core, maintenance blanks generically related to shaping purposes and surface cleaning blanks which show a high amount of previous negatives clearing the flaking surface for the next full debitage episode. Cores have been classified following the flaking surface morphology: pre-core (abandoned at the early shaping stage), parallel edges (broad surface framed by parallel edges (Bon, 2002)), semi-tournant (semi-circumferential flaking surface involving adjacent faces (Bon, 2002;Falcucci & Peresani, 2018)), narrow fronted (narrow flaking surface isolated through flank negatives (Davidzon & Goring-Morris, 2003;Falcucci & Peresani, 2018)), narrow-fronted sur tranche (natural narrow surface (Normand & Turq, 2005)), transversal carinated (broad flaking surface on a front slicing the artefact's thickness (Bon, 2002;Chiotti & Cretin, 2011)) and non-organised cores. Similar artefact measurements have been taken for both technological and typological samples.…”

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Pointing to the Ahmarian. Lithic Technology and the El-Wad Points of Al-Ansab 1

2023

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The Ahmarian is the earliest fully fledged Upper Palaeolithic Levantine industry, and its hallmark is the el-Wad point, assumed to be a projectile implement. The Ahmarian is a blade-bladelet volumetric industry; however, bladelet production has frequently been portrayed as undifferentiated or secondary to blade production. El-Wad points are blades or bladelets with a fine to steep lateral retouch, often further shaping the tip. The role of bladelets and blades, both in the retouched and unretouched assemblages, is highly debated in order to refine Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) taxonomical and technological issues. Here, we use data coming from our excavations at the southern Ahmarian site of Al-Ansab 1 to reconsider the role of bladelets and el-Wad points in the assemblage. We show that bladelet production was key, and blades were mostly used to shape the convexities to produce convergent bladelets. El-Wad point blanks mostly stemmed from an early stage of the reduction sequence, being conventionally classified as small blades or big bladelets. Modification of these blanks likely improved their suboptimal shape, while smaller bladelets were not modified. Our detailed review of the existing literature produced corresponding evidence regarding lithic technology, while the exact function of el-Wad points is still pending on complementary use-wear analyses. With our new data, we expect to provoke a reconsideration of the Ahmarian technological system. As bladelets attract more and more attention in EUP research, we propose that the southern Ahmarian had already fully completed the technological and cultural shift to the preferred use of small projectile inserts.

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“…Les nucléus réutilisés sont des nucléus à éclats ou des nucléus laminaires prismatiques généralement parvenus à exhaustion. Sur les sites aurignaciens, il peut également s'agir de grattoirs carénés (N = 6) ou d'ébauches de grattoirs carénés (Chiotti & Cretin 2011 ; N = 1).…”

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Outils de percussion au Paléolithique supérieur ancien : l’exemple de sites aurignaciens et gravettiens en Vallée de la Vézère (Dordogne, France)

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2021

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Les mises en forme de grattoirs carénés / nucléus de l’aurignacien ancien de l’abri Castanet (Sergeac, Dordogne)

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Hafting of Middle Paleolithic tools in Latium (central Italy): New data from Fossellone and Sant’Agostino caves

Hafting of Middle Paleolithic tools in Latium (central Italy): New data from Fossellone and Sant’Agostino caves

Pointing to the Ahmarian. Lithic Technology and the El-Wad Points of Al-Ansab 1

Outils de percussion au Paléolithique supérieur ancien : l’exemple de sites aurignaciens et gravettiens en Vallée de la Vézère (Dordogne, France)

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