Understanding Lithic Recycling At The Late Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave Israel

Author : Flavia Venditti
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789691028
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Understanding Lithic Recycling at the Late Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave, Israel written by Flavia Venditti and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qesem Cave (Israel) acts here as a case study to explore two important topics from the Middle Pleistocene: the practice of recycling old discarded flakes for the production of new objects by means of recycling, and the production of flakes and tools of small dimensions—topics that have not gained sufficient attention from the scientific community.

Author : Flavia Venditti
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Lithic Recycling at the Late Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave, Israel written by Flavia Venditti and published by Archaeopress Archaeology. This book was released on 2019 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flakes, and small flakes in particular, are usually seen as by-products or debris of the knapping process, rather than as desired end-products with a specific potential use. In recent years, this particular category of small tools has attracted increasing interest among researchers, especially when focusing on technological aspects in Lower Palaeolithic contexts, while the functional role of these tools is still poorly investigated. 'Understanding Lithic Recycling at the Late Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave, Israel: A functional and chemical investigation of small flakes' examines Late Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave, Israel, where a particular lithic trajectory directed towards the production of small flakes by means of recycling and exploiting old discarded flakes as cores has been recognised. The high density of this production throughout the stratigraphic sequence of the cave demonstrates that this was a conscious and planned technological choice aimed at providing small and sharp items to meet specific functional behaviours, and that this lithic behaviour persisted for some 200 kyr of human use of the cave. The exceptional conservation of use-wear signs and residues has made it possible to reconstruct the functional role of this specific production system, highlighting its specialised nature mostly related to the processing of the animal carcasses through accurate and careful actions and in a very specific way. The application of functional analysis based on the determination of wear on artefacts by means of optical light microscope, scanning electron microscopy and chemical analysis (FTIR and EDX), provides a useful and effective approach for understanding the adaptive strategies of the Qesem Cave hominins while facing various situations and solving different needs.

Author : Aviad Agam
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789699355
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flint Procurement and Exploitation Strategies in the Late Lower Paleolithic Levant written by Aviad Agam and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines patterns of flint procurement and exploitation at the Acheulo-Yabrudian site Qesem Cave, Israel. The results show how flint had a major impact on early human decision-making and social and cultural lifeways during the Late Lower Paleolithic of the Levant.

Author : Marie-Hélène Moncel
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832525970
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human behavior, cognition, and environmental interactions for the lower paleolithic written by Marie-Hélène Moncel and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yehouda Enzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107090466
Total Pages : 789 pages
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Download or read book Quaternary of the Levant written by Yehouda Enzel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution in the Levant.

Author : Juan F. Gibaja
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527544923
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunter-Gatherers’ Tool-Kit written by Juan F. Gibaja and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the reader with a multifaceted overview of the study of stone tools used by humans in the past. Including case studies from various geographic regions and different continents, and covering a wide range of chronologies, the contributions here are centred on the study of human communities based on a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. A number of essays in this volume focus on tool production and use, and address major paleoanthropological questions related to past human economic and social behaviour. The book also includes detailed and careful studies of human technology during Prehistory.

Author : Matt Pope
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315439301
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Human Threshold written by Matt Pope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the human threshold crossed? What is the evidence for evolving humans and their emerging humanity? This volume explores in a global overview the archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene, 800,000 to 130,000 years ago when evidence for innovative cultural behaviour appeared. The evidence shows that the threshold was crossed slowly, by a variety of human ancestors, and was not confined to one part of the Old World. Crossing the Human Threshold examines the changing evidence during this period for the use of place, landscape and technology. It focuses on the emergence of persistent places, and associated developments in tool use, hunting strategies and the control of fire, represented across the Old World by deeply stratified cave sites. These include the most important sites for the archaeology of human origins in the Levant, South Africa, Asia and Europe, presented here as evidence for innovation in landscape-thinking during the Middle Pleistocene. The volume also examines persistence at open locales through a cutting-edge review of the archaeology of Northern France and England. Crossing the Human Threshold is for the worldwide community of students and researchers studying early hominins and human evolution. It presents new archaeological data. It frames the evidence within current debates to understand the differences and similarities between ourselves and our ancient ancestors.

Author : Ofer Bar-Yosef
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book The Lithic Assemblages of ʻUbeidiya written by Ofer Bar-Yosef and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317797140
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Past in Prehistoric Societies written by Richard Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of prehistory dates from the nineteenth century, but Richard Bradley contends that it is still a vital area for research. He argues that it is only through a combination of oral tradition and the experience of encountering ancient material culture that people were able to formulate a sense of their own pasts without written records. The Past in Prehistoric Societies presents case studies which extend from the Palaeolithic to the early Middle Ages and from the Alps to Scandinavia. It examines how archaeologists might study the origin of myths and the different ways in which prehistoric people would have inherited artefacts from the past. It also investigates the ways in which ancient remains might have been invested with new meanings long after their original significance had been forgotten. Finally, the author compares the procedures of excavation and field survey in the light of these examples. The work includes a large number of detailed case studies, is fully illustrated and has been written in an extremely accessible style.

Author : Aviad Agam
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781789699340
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flint Procurement and Exploitation Strategies in the Late Lower Paleolithic Levant written by Aviad Agam and published by Archaeopress Archaeology. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flint Procurement and Exploitation Strategies in the Late Lower Paleolithic Levant examines twelve lithic assemblages from Qesem Cave. Potential flint sources were located, petrographic thin sections of archaeological and geologic samples were studied, and a geochemical analysis was performed. The results show that flint from local Turonian sources was often brought to the cave, forming most of the identified flint. Flint from non-Turonian geologic origins was also used in noteworthy proportions, in specific typotechnological categories. The availability of desired flints around the cave, highly suitable for the production of the commonly-used blades, as well as for the production of other tools, probably played a role in the decision to settle there. The notable proportions of non-Turonian flint types, a pattern that repeats itself through time, demonstrate consistency in accessing sources containing non-local flint, implying the existence of knowledge transmission mechanisms concerning the distribution of sources and the suitability of specific flint types for the production of specific blanks/tools.