Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
| Autor: | Paul R. Katz, Robert C. Dunnell, George H. Odell, Hallam L. Movius, Colin I. Busby, Richard Pittioni, Milla Y. Ohel, John Tomenchuk, G. C. Mohapatra, K. Paddayya, L. Lewis Johnson, Raymond R. Newell, Mark H. Newcomer, Derek Roe, F. Van Noten, Brian Hayden, Daniel Cahen, Karl J. Narr, Lawrence H. Keeley, Jeffery A. Behm, Thomas Wynn |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 20:661-683 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/202371 |
| Popis: | Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the assemblages provided by the excavations without being able to explain them. It has been argued that an assemblage of stone tools represents the activities which have taken place on a particular site and that typological differences reflect different activities. The validity of the assumptions on which this "functional argument" relies has, however, never been verified. This article illustrates the possibilities afforded by some recent research approaches applied to the study of a prehistoric site. Palaeotographical study allows the delineation of some archaeological s... |
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