Technological perspectives on the upper paleolithic

The Middle/Later Stone Age transition and cultural dynamics of late Pleistocene East Africa

“…The lack of a qualitative understanding of how artifacts were made results from the rarity of detailed studies of this issue, compounded by a lack of extensive refitting efforts. Such chaîne opératoire approaches allow for the recognition of very particular ways in which stone tools were manufactured in the past that may not be readily captured by quantitative analyses alone . For example, does the wide variation in blade and bladelet size (Figure ) reflect a reduction continuum, differences in raw material availability, or distinctively different production strategies as is now well documented among Proto‐ and Early Aurignacian sites in western Europe? The work by Diez‐Martin and colleagues at Mumba is the most detailed technological study available for East Africa but is focused on Bed V and needs comparative data from Bed VI (MSA) and Bed III (LSA) to better contextualize the results.…”

“…Such chaîne opératoire approaches allow for the recognition of very particular ways in which stone tools were manufactured in the past that may not be readily captured by quantitative analyses alone . For example, does the wide variation in blade and bladelet size (Figure ) reflect a reduction continuum, differences in raw material availability, or distinctively different production strategies as is now well documented among Proto‐ and Early Aurignacian sites in western Europe? The work by Diez‐Martin and colleagues at Mumba is the most detailed technological study available for East Africa but is focused on Bed V and needs comparative data from Bed VI (MSA) and Bed III (LSA) to better contextualize the results. Mehlman's suggestion that early backed microliths in Bed V were made on Levallois flakes suggests the possibility of local technological continuity across the MSA/LSA transition, but even this level of possible continuity is “generic” and not necessarily indicative of link over time between makers of the different artifact industries, as has been emphasized in discussions of the MP/IUP transition in the Levant…”

“…Such chaîne opératoire approaches allow for the recognition of very particular ways in which stone tools were manufactured in the past that may not be readily captured by quantitative analyses alone. 87,95 For example, does the wide variation in blade and bladelet size ( Figure 1) reflect a reduction continuum, differences in raw material availability, or distinctively different production strategies as is now well documented among Proto-and Early Aurignacian sites in western Europe? 95 The work by 96 The broad technologies that characterize the LSA, such as bipolar flaking, the use of backed microliths, end-scrapers, and blade and bladelet production, are things that have been repeatedly and independently invented and reinvented globally, and thus, without a detailed understanding of variations within these technologies, we simply cannot distinguish between multiple independent local innovations versus ideas and technologies that were invented once and subsequently spread either through population movements or as ideas along "chains of connection."…”

Trou du Renard and the Belgian Aurignacian

“…2011a). Reassessment of Aurignacian material has been influenced by improved understanding of Aurignacian lithic technology, most notably the realisation that small bladelets ( c. 1–4 cm in length) and their parent carinated (or ‘keeled’) artefact cores are particularly sensitive chronological/cultural indicators (Bordes & Lenoble 2002; Le Brun-Ricalens et al 2005; 2009; Flas et al 2006; 2013; Pesesse & Michel 2006; Dinnis 2009; 2011; Chazan 2010; Michel 2010). The Belgian site of Maisières Canal ( Atelier de Taille de la Berge Nord-Est area, Hainaut Province) has here played a role – a small open-air Aurignacian assemblage documents the production of small bladelets from cores typologically classified as carinated and busqué burins (Fig.…”

Технолошка Анализа Сечива И Ламела Са Орињасијенског Налазишта Мала Градина У Кулашима У Северној Босни

“…С обзиром на то да је ламинарна технологија у орињасијену добро проучена и представља једно од главних критеријума за дефинисање његових развојних фаза и фацијеса (Le Brun Ricallnes 2005; Bordes and Tixier 2002;Teyssandier 2006;Teyssandier 2008;Falcucci et al 2016;Falccuci and Peresani 2018;Bataille 2016;Batallie et al 2018;Tefelmaier 2017;Chazan 2010), сматрамо да ће резултати анализе сечива и ламела као и компарацијa са налазиштима из региона допринети разматрању северне Босне у периоду раног горњег палеолита.…”