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Investigating Use-Wear Patterns on Handaxes From Europe and Western Asia
Investigating Use-Wear Patterns on Handaxes From Europe and Western Asia
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211150915
- ISBN
- 9798383161630
- DDC
- 571
- 서명/저자
- Investigating Use-Wear Patterns on Handaxes From Europe and Western Asia
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 250 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Iovita, Radu.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Handaxes, bifacially flaked stone tools of sub-oval form, were produced for over a million years across half the world during the Lower Paleolithic period. During this period we see the emergence of the genus Homo in Africa, and we observe the first dispersal of hominins out of Africa into Eurasia. These African hominins confronted new environments and encountered different climates, natural resources and food sources. Yet, despite being found in so many different environmental contexts, the shape of handaxes seem to stay relatively constant. This lack of change is puzzling, because archaeologists have long thought that handaxes were part of the technological adaptation that allowed these expansions to happen (Roe, 2003; Isaac et al., 1977; Gowlett, 2014; Pargeter et al., 2020). Keeping a constant shape for over a million years requires a mechanism that is currently unknown. Either hominins intentionally kept the design of the handaxes constant despite environmental diversity, or these shapes are similar by convergence. Knowing which of the two alternatives is true requires knowing what the function of handaxes was. However, the function of handaxes has received less attention than their shape, and remains a mystery, even two hundred years after their first discovery. This dissertation seeks to explore the question of handaxe function through time and space, by studying simple patterns of use based on microscopic wear found on handaxes from sites in Israel and France. This study aims to investigate if it is possible for the function of handaxes to remain constant regardless of their difference in period and location. To do so, I mapped the wear type and its location located on a wide corpus of handaxes as well as verified if it is possible to identify different patterns by sites and period. This project addressed this issue by first collecting data from Eurasian handaxes from a wide time span (from 1.7 Ma to 140 ka). Wear type (micro-scars, edge crushing, striations, edge rounding, polish) were identified density, shape, orientation, relative position, and distribution. Finally, the study produced quantitative data on the location of different types of wear on the stone tools to identify surface modification patterns corresponding to different sites and over time.
- 일반주제명
- Archaeology
- 일반주제명
- Cultural anthropology
- 일반주제명
- Paleontology
- 키워드
- Experimentation
- 키워드
- Handaxe
- 키워드
- Prehistory
- 키워드
- Replicas
- 기타저자
- New York University Anthropology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aHandaxes, bifacially flaked stone tools of sub-oval form, were produced for over a million years across half the world during the Lower Paleolithic period. During this period we see the emergence of the genus Homo in Africa, and we observe the first dispersal of hominins out of Africa into Eurasia. These African hominins confronted new environments and encountered different climates, natural resources and food sources. Yet, despite being found in so many different environmental contexts, the shape of handaxes seem to stay relatively constant. This lack of change is puzzling, because archaeologists have long thought that handaxes were part of the technological adaptation that allowed these expansions to happen (Roe, 2003; Isaac et al., 1977; Gowlett, 2014; Pargeter et al., 2020). Keeping a constant shape for over a million years requires a mechanism that is currently unknown. Either hominins intentionally kept the design of the handaxes constant despite environmental diversity, or these shapes are similar by convergence. Knowing which of the two alternatives is true requires knowing what the function of handaxes was. However, the function of handaxes has received less attention than their shape, and remains a mystery, even two hundred years after their first discovery. This dissertation seeks to explore the question of handaxe function through time and space, by studying simple patterns of use based on microscopic wear found on handaxes from sites in Israel and France. This study aims to investigate if it is possible for the function of handaxes to remain constant regardless of their difference in period and location. To do so, I mapped the wear type and its location located on a wide corpus of handaxes as well as verified if it is possible to identify different patterns by sites and period. This project addressed this issue by first collecting data from Eurasian handaxes from a wide time span (from 1.7 Ma to 140 ka). Wear type (micro-scars, edge crushing, striations, edge rounding, polish) were identified density, shape, orientation, relative position, and distribution. Finally, the study produced quantitative data on the location of different types of wear on the stone tools to identify surface modification patterns corresponding to different sites and over time.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0146.
■650 4▼aArchaeology
■650 4▼aCultural anthropology
■650 4▼aPaleontology
■653 ▼aExperimentation
■653 ▼aHandaxe
■653 ▼aLower Paleolithic
■653 ▼aPrehistory
■653 ▼aReplicas
■653 ▼aUse-wear analysis
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17160132▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
