New Experimental Observations for the Characterization of Pressure Blade Production Techniques

Pélegrin, Jacques

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-2003-3_18

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“…Los trabajos que hemos conducido en colaboración con J. Pelegrin han permitido poner en evidencia el empleo de la presión en el caso del método de La Bertonne (Chehmana et al 2009(Chehmana et al -2010, como hemos referido más arriba, y esencialmente de la percusión en el caso del método de Orville (Pelegrin 1982). M. Lenoir (1976) y C. Perlès (1982), por otra parte, han remarcado que las piezas de La Bertonne comportan un mayor número de negativos de extracción de hojitas que los núcleos de Orville (ver asimismo Ducasse y Langlais 2008), lo que corresponde a una diferencia en el desarrollo de la secuencia de producción.…”

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La Posición Cronocultural De Las Industrias Con “Piezas De La Bertonne”

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Baumann

Cretin

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Abstract. In this article we present a overview of current knowledge regarding the chronocultural position of industries with La Bertonne pieces within the Western European Upper Paleolithic. Initially attributed to the Aurignacian (Leyssalles and Noone 1949) and then to the Proto-Solutrean (Arambourou 1970), these industries are now attributed to the Badegoulian due to the association of La Bertonne pieces with one of the most typical tools of this material culture, the raclette (Lenoir 2000a and b). This association has indeed been pointed out in several levels at the site of Laugerie-Haute. Est (France, Dordogne), one of which has been dated to 17040 ± 440 BP (Ly-973; Évin et al. 1976: 80

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La Posición Cronocultural De Las Industrias Con “Piezas De La Bertonne”

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Cretin

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“…Ginter and Kozlowski 1994:48;Holmes 1989:445). Blades can be produced through a variety of technologies, including different kinds of percussion flaking, or pressure flaking (Dessrosiers 2012;Pelegrin 2012;Whittaker 1994;Wilke and Quintero 1996).…”

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“…The size of the large blades indicates that these were unlikely to have been produced through pressure (see Pelegrin (2012) for pressure flaking techniques and associated maximum widths), leaving direct or indirect percussion as possibilities.…”

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“…Outside of Egypt, Pelegrin (2012) noted from his experimental reproductions that pressure blades produced by holding the core in the hand, rather than stabilizing it on the ground or with a device, often had a slight twist. Pelegrin also noted that with increased stability of the core, the blades were more regular.…”

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“…However, as discussed above, larger blades could also be twisted. Detaching very long blades with a pressure technique is much more complicated (Clark 2012;Pelegrin 2012). Therefore it is likely that there were differences between the production processes for twisted large blades and twisted bladelets, and possibly even for twisted medium blades.…”

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Beyond Prestige: A Ritual Production Model for Stone Tool Specialization in Naqada Period Egypt

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This dissertation looks at the organization and development of specialized production in 4th millennium BCE Egypt. At the outset of this period northeastern Africa was occupied by small-scale groups of pastoralists and early agriculturalists. By the close of the 4th millennium BC, the Nile Valley was one of the earliest instances of a society with centralized political organization, extensive labor division, and institutionalized inequalities.This research brings data on stone tools and settlement sites to bear on competing models of specialization. Many models of specialized production have focused either on the production of symbolically meaningful goods for the elite, or the production of utilitarian goods for the masses; they have not considered the production of symbolically meaningful goods for commoners. In Egypt the prevailing theory for the development of specialized production is a prestige-goods model, where elites sponsored the production of items used to display status and which were not available to all. However, this model does not account for all specialized production. A review of the evidence for specialization in Egypt shows that some items made by specialists were quite widely used (e.g., lithic blades, black-topped red ware ceramics), and so do not fit a prestige-goods model. To explore how the production of various stone tools was organized and developed, a model of ritual production outlined by Spielmann (2002) was considered. This model recognizes that people have often increased their economic production in order to make items needed for ritual activities, such as life cycle events (e.g., birth, marriage, death) and community-encompassing rituals. These ritual activities involved many members of society, not a restricted subset. Expectations were developed for archaeological patterns of raw material choice, production locations, and find contexts that should be observed if the ritual production model can account for the development of some aspects of specialized production in -ivEgypt. These expectations were evaluated based on examination of lithic artifact collections from the settlement sites of el-Mahâsna, Abydos, and Nag el-Qarmila, and comparison to published data from other sites and online museum databases. This research showed that there were many different ways that stone tool production was organized at the intra-site and regional levels. Some of stone tools-early fishtail knives, axes, large-blade knives, and microendscrapers-fit the ritual production model for the development of specialized production quite well. Preferences for certain raw materials were evident, and these preferences could not be accounted for by functional considerations or access to local resources. Instead, the raw material choices probably related to the symbolic significance of their colors, which can be traced from the Pharaonic back to the Predynastic periods. These tools were produced in conjunction with ritual activity areas, and the tools themselves were found in ritually significant cont...

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New Experimental Observations for the Characterization of Pressure Blade Production Techniques

Cited by 81 publications

References 16 publications

La Posición Cronocultural De Las Industrias Con “Piezas De La Bertonne”

La Posición Cronocultural De Las Industrias Con “Piezas De La Bertonne”

Beyond Prestige: A Ritual Production Model for Stone Tool Specialization in Naqada Period Egypt

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