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Rots V. (2010) – Prehension and Hafting Traces on Flint Tools. A Methodology, Leuven, Leuven University Press
No full textLemorini C. Rots V. (2010) – Prehension and Hafting Traces on Flint Tools. A Methodology, Leuven, Leuven University Press. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 108, n°3, 2011. p. 583
Traceological analysis applied to textile implements: An assessment of the method through the case study of the 1st millennium BCE ceramic tools in central Italy
No full textThis contribution focuses on the application of traceological analysis to ceramic textile tools. Traceological analysis has been rarely applied to the study of this specific category of artefacts. A dedicated reference collection needed to be created for a proper understanding of the development of both technological and use traces, on apparently simple artefacts that, nevertheless, are connected with very specific gestures highly constrained by cultural background of their users. Our experimental framework was based on the ceramic textile tools from the cemeteries of Cerveteri, Vulci, Narce and Falerii in Central Italy, dated to the 1st millennium BCE. The macroscopic analyses of archaeological and experimental ceramic textile tools allowed to define the technological features of production, such as the exploited ceramic pastes and the traces related to the various steps of tool production including modelling, surface treatment, decoration and firing techniques. Moreover, this investigation allowed to define the technological traces and to distinguish them from use wear traces and post-depositional alterations
The origins of recycling. A Paleolithic perspective
No full textThe study of lithic recycling in Paleolithic cultures throughout the Old World is increasingly becoming atopic of interest for many scholars. Technological analyses, refitting, and spatial analyses are disclosingthe“recycling behavior”of many contexts, especially those of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites. Stilllacking, however, is a functional approach to the subject, which would certainly add new pieces to thisintriguing jigsaw puzzle.Use-wear analysis, one of the most powerful methods to reach functional interpretations in lithicfinds,can greatly improve our understanding of Paleolithic recycling behavior. Even in those cases where post-depositional alterations affected lithic items, use-wear analyses may produce important data despite thedecrease in detail or less than optimal conditions of preservation.At the late Lower Paleolithic site of Qesem Cave, the high degree of conservation and preservation ofthe lithic tools maximizes the inference potential of this method. In this article, functional data aresummarized following a study of a large sample of Amudian parentflakes (flakes from which wereproduced cores onflakes, termed COF-FFs) as well as recycled products (blanks produced from COF-FFs).Confirming the inference potential of use-wear analyses, this data allows for the delineation of functionalpeculiarities of the studied items, which, despitefirst impression, are anything but expedient. Moreover,the current use-wear analysis expands the scenario outlined by the technological study of the lithicrecycling phenomenon at Qesem Cave, confirming its own role in the complex techno-functional systempracticed by the hominins of Qesem Cave
“Teste di mazza”: The Nuragic mace-heads (Sardinia, Italy). Technological and experimental analysis
No full textWe present the results of a study on the experimental reproduction of a specific type of macro-lithic tool, traditionally called “teste di mazza”, distinctive to the Nuragic phase in Sardinia (17th-9th century BC). We analyzed a sample collected in the area of northern Sinis–in the western-central part of the island–in order to reconstruct the sequence of the technological actions required to produce these tools. At this point, two experimental copies were manufactured, documenting the process and especially the macro-traces left on the surface of the instruments which were used to make comparisons with the archaeological data
L'analisi funzionale per lo studio delle industrie litiche. Con un'appendice sull'analisi delle materie dure animali
No full textI raschiatoi nel musteriano Quina di Fumane: proposte per un’interpretazione funzionale.
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Coppa Nevigata: catalogo dei reperti
No full textSi presenta un catalogo critico e ragionato di una selezione di materiali ceramici, in bronzo ed in osso lavorato provenienti dall'insediamento fortificato dell'età del Bronzo di Coppa Nevigat
Caneva I., Lemorini C., Zampetti D. and Biaggi P. (eds). 2001. Beyond Tools - Redefining the PPN Lithic Assemblages of the Levant (Proceedings of the Third Workshop on PPN Chipped Lithic Industries, Venice, 1998).
No full textInizan Marie-Louise. Caneva I., Lemorini C., Zampetti D. and Biaggi P. (eds). 2001. Beyond Tools - Redefining the PPN Lithic Assemblages of the Levant (Proceedings of the Third Workshop on PPN Chipped Lithic Industries, Venice, 1998).. In: Paléorient, 2003, vol. 29, n°1. pp. 172-174
Premiers résultats d'une approche expérimentale intégrée de l'industrie lithique discoïde de la Grotte de Fumane (Italie du Nord).
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