Presenting LusoLit: A lithotheque of knappable raw materials from central and southern Portugal
| Autor: | Eduardo Paixão, Anne Farias, Telmo Pereira |
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010506 paleontology
060102 archaeology Portugal Range (biology) media_common.quotation_subject Archaeological record knappable raw materials 06 humanities and the arts Raw material Territoriality 01 natural sciences Archaeology LusoLit Stage (stratigraphy) abiotic resources lcsh:Archaeology 0601 history and archaeology lithotheque lcsh:CC1-960 Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Diversity (politics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine Journal of Lithic Studies, Vol 3, Iss 2 (2016) Ciência Vitae |
| Popis: | The knowledge of where past human populations collected their raw materials to produce stone-tools is crucial to understand subjects such as their territoriality, mobility, decision-making, range of acquisition, networks and, eventually, to infer their cognitive abilities and the adaptations to new environments, landscapes and territories. Therefore, the creation of lithic reference collections (lithotheque) is of utmost importance. In geological terms, Portugal is a highly complex and diversified region, with a plethora of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks dated from Proterozoic to present days. Such diversity might have influenced considerably the human decision-making on the choices of raw material and it might be one of the major reasons for the diversity seen throughout the diachrony of its archaeological record. Thus, sampling, cataloguing and mapping the raw material diversity in a territory with such variability allows to enrich the knowledge about it and, consequently to build stronger inferences about past human behaviour with more detail and less bias. In order to help the archaeological and anthropological research to better understand such archaeological record and past human behaviour in this territory, we started a reference collection for this region host in the University of Algarve: the LusoLit. Though in its early stages, this collection has already several hundred chert samples from Central and Southern Portugal. In this early stage, the raw material that we start collecting was chert because it is the least ubiquitous through the landscape and, consequently, that can provide better information. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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