Un automne à PinceventLe campement magdalénien du niveau IV201

Julien, Michèle; Karlin, Claudine

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“…Less proficient knappers were stationed at a corresponding distance from the center with child novices at the periphery where they could watch while "play" knapping but without getting in the way (Pigeot 1990). A very similar distribution of knappers was excavated at Pincevent, a contemporary site (Julien and Karlin 2015). From a dart-making site in the Great Basin of North America "the 'poor' preforms…are positioned in an arc around the excellent knapper" (Cunnar 2015,143).…”

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Homo Faber Juvenalis: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Children as Tool Makers/Users

Lancy

2017

Childhood in the Past

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The overall goal of this paper is to derive a set of generalizations that might characterize children as tool makers/users in the earliest human societies. These generalizations will be sought from the collective wisdom of four distinct bodies of scholarship: lithic archaeology; juvenile chimps as novice tool users; recent laboratory work in human infant and child cognition, focused on objects becoming tools and; the ethnographic study of children learning their community's toolkit. The presumption is that this collective wisdom will yield greater insight into children's development as tool producers and users than has been available to scholars operating within narrower disciplinary limits.

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Homo Faber Juvenalis: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Children as Tool Makers/Users

Lancy

2017

Childhood in the Past

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“…Aggregation sites, for example, in both Southwest Asia and Europe, with evidence for larger-than-usual numbers of people and clear organization of space with individual hut or tent structures, are rare but nonetheless present at several sites (Bosinski and Bosinski 2007;Conkey 1980;Garrard and Byrd 2013;Julien 2003;Julien and Karlin 2014;Maher, Richter, Macdonald, et al 2012;Nadel and Werker 1999). 2 Interpretation of the structures at such sites ranges greatly, from mere ephemeral shelters to places "built" into a landscape with meaning beyond refuge from the elements (Brooks 1995;Goring-Morris andBelfer-Cohen 2003, 2008;Olive and Pigeot 2006;Soffer 2003).…”

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“…These discontinuities operate at different scales, from the family cell to more and more distant kin to aliens. In the last publication on Pincevent level IV20, Julien and Karlin have demonstrated a differential social proximity of the several "foyers domestiques/homes" according to the spatial proximity and the intensity and nature of exchanges (Julien and Karlin 2014). Given the homogeneity of the manufactured artifacts, aggregation most probably took place there within an extended kinship.…”

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Homes for Hunters? Exploring the Concept of Home at Hunter-Gatherer Sites in Upper Paleolithic Europe and Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia

Maher¹,

Conkey²

2019

Current Anthropology

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“…Backed pieces are common artifacts in Gravettian and particularly Magdalenian lithic tool assemblages in Europe. At Magdalenian sites that have been excavated recently using modern techniques including water screening or fine sieving of the sediments, backed pieces are often the dominant tool category (e.g., Schmidt 1912;Leesch 1997;Bullinger 2000;Christensen and Valentin 2004;Pétillon et al 2011;Bolus 2012;Julien 2014;Taller 2014;Maier 2015). This means that these artifacts and the connected technologies must have been of considerable importance for Magdalenians and their technological strategies.…”

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A Swiss Army Knife from the Upper Paleolithic? Experiments on Non-Projectile Uses of Backed Pieces

Taller¹,

Taipale²

2021

MGfU

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Backed lithic artifacts are an important part of the Upper Paleolithic tool kit, and are often among the most abundant categories of lithic tools found at Magdalenian and Gravettian sites. Often these tools are exclusively referred to as projectiles, and indeed many – if not most – backed pieces may have been parts of composite projectile heads, mounted laterally onto organic points (e.g., Allain and Descouts 1957; Allain 1979; Abramova 1982; Bergman and Newcomer 1983; Leroi Gourhan 1983; Plisson 1985; Nuzhnyi 1993; Christensen and Valentin 2004; Sano 2009; Langlais 2010; AraujoIgreja 2011; Tomasso et al. 2018). Experiments of varying comprehensiveness concerned with the use of (Magdalenian) backed pieces as projectile inserts have confirmed the effectivity of this setup (e.g., Moss and Newcomer 1982; Pétillon et al. 2011; Gauvrit Roux et al. 2020). However, backed pieces sometimes also served other purposes like cutting, sawing, shaving, scraping or perforating (Moss and Newcomer 1982; Moss 1983; Owen 1988; PielDesruisseaux 1998; Christensen and Valentin 2004; Taller et al. 2012). The modular technological system involving these lithic artifacts is highly versatile, mobile and dynamic as there are numerous possibilities of use and as the small lithic inserts are easy to transport and the composite tools themselves are easy to maintain and repair. Here, we present the results of an experiment where different tasks were carried out using backed pieces hafted in a wooden handle or operated handheld. The design of the handles loosely follows examples found at Canadian Dorset sites where bladelets comparable in size to Magdalenian backed pieces were hafted and used as knives (Owen 1988, 88ff.). We tried out the tools in various activities (cutting, perforating and carving/whittling) on a set of worked materials (wood, antler, marine shell, smoked meat, dried, semitanned hide, and tanned leather). After the completion of these tasks, the applicability, durability and usefulness of the setup were evaluated and the lithic inserts were checked microscopically for usewear traces.

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Un automne à PinceventLe campement magdalénien du niveau IV201

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Homo Faber Juvenalis: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Children as Tool Makers/Users

Homo Faber Juvenalis: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Children as Tool Makers/Users

Homes for Hunters? Exploring the Concept of Home at Hunter-Gatherer Sites in Upper Paleolithic Europe and Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia

A Swiss Army Knife from the Upper Paleolithic? Experiments on Non-Projectile Uses of Backed Pieces

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