Predator Agents and Leporid Accumulations: the Case of Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà, Barcelona, Spain)Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory - Tập 22 - Trang 980-1005 - 2014
Nadihuska Y. Rosado-Méndez, Lluís Lloveras, Joan Daura, Jordi Nadal, Montserrat Sanz
Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà, Barcelona, Spain) is an Upper Pleistocene fluvial deposit dated to 39.6 cal. ka BP with a few Aurignacian stone tools. Faunal remains recovered in this site contained, apart from large mammals, an important assemblage of leporid remains. This taxon (especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus) is very abundant in most Paleolithic and Epipaleolith...... hiện toàn bộ
Can Lithic Attribute Analyses Identify Discrete Reduction Trajectories? A Quantitative Study Using Refitted Lithic SetsJournal of Archaeological Method and Theory - Tập 23 - Trang 669-691 - 2015
Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Brad Gravina, James Blinkhorn, Anne Delagnes
Quantitative, attribute-based analyses of stone tools (lithics) have been frequently used to facilitate large-scale comparative studies, attempt to mitigate problems of assemblage completeness and address interpretations of the co-occurrence of unrelated technological processes. However, a major barrier to the widespread acceptance of such methods has been the lack of quantified experiments that c...... hiện toàn bộ
Evolutionary implications of design and performance characteristics of prehistoric potteryJournal of Archaeological Method and Theory - Tập 1 - Trang 259-304 - 1994
Michael J. O'Brien, Thomas D. Holland, Robert J. Hoard, Gregory L. Fox
A Darwinian evolutionary approach offers a powerful means of examining change archaeologically. The approach is based on the tenet that materials contained in the archaeological record were parts of human phenotypes, as were behaviors behind the manufacture, use, and discard of the materials. Engineering-design analysis and performance analysis of material remains — here variously tempered ceramic...... hiện toàn bộ
Influence of Handaxe Size and Shape on Cutting Efficiency: A Large-Scale Experiment and Morphometric AnalysisJournal of Archaeological Method and Theory - Tập 24 - Trang 514-541 - 2016
Alastair J. M. Key, Stephen J. Lycett
Handaxes represent one of the most temporally enduring and geographically widespread of Palaeolithic artifacts and thus comprised a key technological strategy of many hominin populations. Archaeologically observable variation in the size (i.e., mass) and shape properties of handaxes has been frequently noted. It is logical to ask whether some of this variability may have had functional implication...... hiện toàn bộ
Understanding Prehistoric Lithic Raw Material Selection: Application of a Gravity ModelJournal of Archaeological Method and Theory - Tập 14 - Trang 388-411 - 2007
Lucy Wilson
Provenance studies can tell us which sources of lithic raw material were used in the past, but can they tell us why? After all, many factors can have entered into a person’s choice to use one source rather than another. Those factors can be grouped into two categories, the geologic/geographic characteristics of the source itself (quality, abundance, size of pieces, etc.), and the human factors (di...... hiện toàn bộ
The Art of Making Images: Technological Affordance, Design Variability and Labour Organization in the Production of Engraved Artefacts and Body Paintings in Tierra del Fuego (Southern South America)Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory - Tập 27 - Trang 481-510 - 2020
Danae Fiore
This paper contributes to the conception of visual art as a material culture artefact produced through a work process. Art-making work processes condense economic factors (raw material exploitation, labour organization, etc.), technological factors (materials, tools, techniques, etc.) and cognitive factors (knowledge, values, visual perceptions, etc.), all of which are inextricably linked in the c...... hiện toàn bộ
Teaching with Digital Archaeological Data: A Research Archive in the University ClassroomJournal of Archaeological Method and Theory - Tập 21 - Trang 837-861 - 2013
Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Jillian E. Galle, Mark W. Hauser, Fraser D. Neiman
Digital tools and techniques have revolutionized archaeological research and allow analyses unimagined by previous generations of scholars. However, digital archaeological data appear to be an underappreciated resource for teaching. Here, the authors draw on their experiences as university instructors using digital data contained in the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (
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