Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mutri, Giuseppina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tools, Prehistoric--Libya.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Libya.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Stone implements--Libya.

Stone implements.

Mountains--Libya.

Mountains.

Libya--Antiquities.

Libya.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2022.

Summary:

The study of the human societies of the Final Pleistocene of North Africa requires an in-depth analysis of the techno-typological characteristics of the microlithic industries that were widespread in the whole Mediterranean area during the period between 24000 and 10000 years ago. Most of the research projects in Maghreb and Libya were carried out decades ago. At the time sediments were rarely sieved and the small lithic tools, so characteristic of this period, were often lost. Also, little attention was paid to the raw material sourcing, which is an exceptional tool for understanding technology, human behavior and land management. It is thus of great importance to focus on new research, that has the potential to delineate a more detailed picture of the North-African Later Stone Age. Based on more recent research in the Jebel Gharbi (Libya), this book offers a high-resolution description and documentation of the LSA lithic complexes of North-Western Libya, applying an approach that integrates up-to-date techno-typological studies with geochemistry and functional analysis. This research aims to define the characteristics of the human occupation of the Jebel Gharbi during the Late Pleistocene, with specific reference to the period from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene transition, delineating a picture of the human occupation of the area through about ten millennia. This volume represents an exhaustive overview on the Prehistory of Northern Libya in areas that aren't, nowadays, accessible to researchers.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Hunter-gatherer societies in the North African context. History of studies, definitions, chronology

1.1 Research Objective

1.6 LSA research in North African LSA contexts: state of the art

1.5 Subsistence strategy of Late-Pleistocene hunter-gatherers and microlithic technology

1.4 Pleistocene microlithic industries and palaeoclimatic aspects (LGM).

1.3 The Mechtoid physical type and the LSA industries

1.2 Microlithism and backed bladelet-based lithic assemblages in the North African Late Plesistocene. Chronology, characteristics and diffusion

Jebel Gharbi, environment and cultures

2.1 Introduction

2.5 Description of the sample of the Jebel Gharbi LSA sites studied

2.4 Palaoclimatical and palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Final Pleistocene

2.3 Geomorphology, chronostatigraphical sequences

Methodologies of study of lithic raw materials. Petrography, microscopy and geochemistry

3.1 Methodological aspects

3.4 Criteria of analysis of lithic complexes

3.3 Techniques for determining raw materials

3.2 Raw Material analysis and Characteristics of knappable stones

Raw Materials: distribution, analysis and characteristics of flint outcrops in Jebel Gharbi

4.1 Flint formations and outcrops in Jebel Gharbi

4.4 Quartzite and the origin of other raw materials in the LSA lithic complexes in Jebel Gharbi

4.3 Sites SJ-06‑85, SJ-06‑84 and SG-07‑94, three workshops of initial extraction of flint. Technological observations and experimental comparisons

4.2 Sampling procedure and preparation of a descriptive dossier as an instrument for data classification

Study sample in the Shakshuk and Wadi Ghan Territories

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 The Shakshuck area. SJ-00‑55 East site. Raw materials, analysis, typological analysis, technological analysis

5.10 SG-99‑41 TEST PIT. Technological analysis

5.9 SG-99‑41. Typological analysis

5.8 Site SJ-99‑41. Analysis of raw materials, technological analysis, typological analysis

5.7 Wadi Ghan area

5.6 SJ-00‑56. Typological analysis

5.5 Dimensional tendencies of the lithic complex

5.4 Cores

5.3 Site SJ-00‑56. Analysis of raw materials, typological analysis, technological analysis.

From the lithic assemblage to the site. Techno-functional and experimental study of lithic artefacts

6.1 Methodological motivations of a light-power approach in the functional study of lithic techno-complexes and in the analysis of the site function

6.6 Discussion

6.5 Functional interpretation of the sites studied in the light of technological, typological and functional data

6.4 Experimental assessment of some techno-functional aspects of the lithic complexes studied. Realisation of the Ouchtata retouch. Production potential of cores, projectile hypothesis

6.3 Functional analysis of macro-traces and impact fractures of some of the complexes studied

Final Remarks. Wide spectrum economy, settlement choices and raw materials procurement

References

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Other Format:

Print version: Mutri, Giuseppina Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)

ISBN:

9789464280296