Beyond Use-Wear Traces : Going from Tools to People by Means of Archaeological Wear and Residue Analyses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beyries, Sylvie.

Contributor:

Hamon, Caroline.

Maigrot, Yolaine.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Tools, Prehistoric.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Beyond Use-Wear Traces

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2021.

Summary:

This book brings together 30 papers by leading scholars in the field of usewear and residue analysis. This publication aims to revive the debate on the role of traceology (use-wear and residues) in multidisciplinary approaches that address archaeological questions. Many studies on technological aspects of material culture deal with specific material categories (e.g. flint, ceramics, bone), often in separate or isolated ways, and this division does not really reflect the integrated nature of technical systems in which different material categories are in dynamic interaction. Hence, exploring the interaction between different chaînes opératoires is crucial for a more global concept of the toolkit with all its components and it is a precondition for paleo-ethnographic reconstructions of technical systems and economies. Starting from a functional perspective, the papers in this book explore various topics such as apprenticeship, group dynamics, social status, economy, technological evolution, spatial organization, mobility patterns and territories, or adaptations to cultural and environmental changes.This collection of papers, presented at the AWRANA conference in 2018, constitutes a major sign of the dynamism, popularity and scientific importance of our discipline in current archaeological research. AWRANA 2018 was dedicated to the memory of H. Keeley.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

A Tribute to Lawrence Keeley through some personal recollections

Lawrence Keeley and the Archaeology of hunter-gatherer societies. A work that transcends to this day…

Part 1

Methodologies and referential

An attempt to better distinguish micropolishes using Visible spectroscopy

Renaud Gosselin

Experimental protocol for shell ornament perforation

Identifying techniques and stigma variability according to the utilized species

Leïla Hoareau, Chiara Zen and Sylvie Beyries

In the Prehistoric kitchen with stone tools

Identification of multifunctional tools through use-wear analysis

Emily Tochtrop and Danielle A. Macdonald

Use-wear analysis of plant processing in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of the south-east of France: the contribution of ethnography

Cristina De Stefanis and Sylvie Beyries

What’s on the menu? An experimental approach to the functional study of Neolithic pottery

Pauline Debels

Comparison of the use-wear traces on bone awls and styluses – an experimental study

Monika Stelmasiak

Stones, bones and reeds operating chains in manufacture and use of artifacts for the production of basketry in the societies of Tierra del Fuego

Vanesa Parmigiani, Anna Franch, María Celina Alvarez Soncini, Hernán De Angelis and María Estela Mansur

Part 2

Toward technical behavior

Lower Palaeolithic stone tools

A techno-functional study of the Soucy 3P assemblage (France)

Juliette Guibert-Cardin, Félicien Capellari, Vincent Lhomme, Nelly Connet, Elisa Nicoud and Sylvie Beyries

Experimental archaeology for the interpretation of use-wear

The case study of the small tools of Fontana Ranuccio (late Lower Palaeolithic, Central Italy)

Flavia Marinelli, Daniela Zampetti and Cristina Lemorini Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9789464260021

9464260025

OCLC:

1250080800