Use-related or contamination? Residue and use-wear mapping on stone tools used for experimental processing of plants from Southeast Asia
| Autor: | Claire Gaillard, Eusebio Z. Dizon, Hubert Forestier, Thibaud Saos, Hermine Xhauflair, Alfred F. Pawlik |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Patrimoines Locaux et Gouvernance (PALOC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), National Museum of the Philippines, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Stone tool
010506 paleontology Residue (complex analysis) 060102 archaeology [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory Soil science 06 humanities and the arts Contamination engineering.material 01 natural sciences Southeast asia Mining engineering engineering Environmental science 0601 history and archaeology Spatial relationship Use-wear analysis ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | Quaternary International Quaternary International, Elsevier, 2017, 427, pp.80-93. ⟨10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.023⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1040-6182 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.023⟩ |
| Popis: | Analysing residues on stone tools can reveal precise information about the activities that were conducted with the lithic tool and is a valuable technique to reconstruct past human behaviours. However, it is often difficult to assess the nature of the relationship between a residue and the artefact on which it is found. It is of great importance, therefore, to determine whether residues are use-related or a result of contamination. Here, we conducted experiments with 99 tool replicas made of red jasper, processed 15 different plant taxa and mapped the distribution of residues against the use-wear traces. Our experiments addressed several questions on the spatial relationship between use-wear and use-related residues on stone tools. In the majority of cases the residues were not spatially associated with use-wear. Therefore, it appears that residues should not necessarily be considered as non-related to use because they are not in close proximity to use-wear. On the other hand, our experiments also showed that the problem of contamination should not be underestimated and can be a serious cause for misinterpreting stone tool functions. Finally, our results showed a variability in residue distribution between tools used to process different plant taxa and revealed that the water content in the contact material has an influence on residue distribution. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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