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Beyond Use-Wear Traces: Going from Tools to People by Means of Archaeological Wear and Residue Analyses
This book brings together 30 papers by leading scholars in the field of usewear and residue analysis. This publication aims to revive the debate on the role of traceology (use-wear and residues) in multidisciplinary approaches that address archaeological questions. Many studies on technological aspects of material culture deal with specific material categories (e.g. flint, ceramics, bone), often in separate or isolated ways, and this division does not really reflect the integrated nature of technical systems in which different material categories are in dynamic interaction.
Hence, exploring the interaction between different chaînes opératoires is crucial for a more global concept of the toolkit with all its components and it is a precondition for paleo-ethnographic reconstructions of technical systems and economies. Starting from a functional perspective, the papers in this book explore various topics such as apprenticeship, group dynamics, social status, economy, technological evolution, spatial organization, mobility patterns and territories, or adaptations to cultural and environmental changes.
This collection of papers, presented at the AWRANA conference in 2018, constitutes a major sign of the dynamism, popularity and scientific importance of our discipline in current archaeological research. AWRANA 2018 was dedicated to the memory of H. Keeley.
Table of Contents
Preface
Richard Fullagar
Introduction
Sylvie Beyries, Caroline Hamon, Yolaine Maigrot
A Tribute to Lawrence Keeley through some personal recollections
Patricia Anderson
Lawrence Keeley and the Archaeology of hunter-gatherer societies. A work that transcends until today…
Maria Estela Mansur
Part 1 – Methodologies and referential
An attempt to better distinguish the micropolishes using visible spectroscopy
Renaud Gosselin
Experimental protocol on shell ornaments identifying techniques and stigma variability according to the utilized species
Leïla Hoareau, Chiara Zen, Sylvie Beyries
In the Prehistoric kitchen with stone identification of multifunctional tools through use-wear analysis
Emily Tochtrop, Danielle A. Macdonald
Use-wear analysis of plant processing in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of south-east of the contribution of ethnography
Cristina De Stefanis, Sylvie Beyries
What’s on the menu? An experimental approach to the functional study of Neolithic pottery
Pauline Debels
Comparison of the use-wear traces on bone awls and styluses – an experimental study
Monika Stelmasiak
Stones, bones and reeds operating chains in manufacture and use of artefacts for the production of basketry in the societies of Tierra del fuego
Vanessa Parmigiani, Anna Franch Bach, Maria Celina Alvarez Soncini, Hernán De Angelis, Maria Estela Mansur
Part 2 – Toward technical behavior
Lower Palaeolithic stone a techno-functional study of the Soucy 3P assemblage (France)
Juliette Guibert-Cardin, Félicien Capellari, Vincent Lhomme, Nelly Connet, Elisa Nicoud, Sylvie Beyries
Experimental archeology for the interpretation of the case study of the small tools of Fontana Ranuccio (late Lower Palaeolithic, central Italy)
Flavia Marinelli, Daniela Zampetti, Cristina Lemorini
Stone tool use and rejuvenation at the Late Paleolithic site of TH.413 Wadi Ribkout, southern Oman.
Yamandú H. Hilbert, Ignacio Clemente-Conte
Mesolithic bone adzes and mattock-heads from Poland. Some suggestions on their technology and function
Justyna Orłowska, Grzegorz Osipowicz
Assessing the function of trapezoidal bitruncations from Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, France) through the use-wear methodology
Jorge Calvo Gómez, Grégor Marchand, David Cuenca Solana
New insights into the technological management of the Neolithic cowrie beads in the An experimental and traceological approach
Hala Alarashi
From the quarry to the use-wear analysis of the manufacture of schist bracelets in the Early Neolithic of north‐western Europe
Caroline Hamon, Nicolas Fromont, Eric Gaumé, Cécile Germain-Vallée
A functional analysis of abrading a case study from the Central Balkans
Vesna Vučković, Roberto Risch
Wild boar tusk artefacts from peatbog sites of northwestern Russia and northeastern Belarus (4th-2nd mill. BC): technology, function, context
Anna Malyutina, Maxim Charniauski
Fish exploitation during the Early Bronze Age Central the contribution of use-wear analysis at Mitrou
Marie-Philippine Montagné
Typological and functional study of few sickle inserts from Central Caucasus (according to the materials from Grakliani Hill)
Ana Tetruashvili
Lithic artifacts and the production of metallic goods. A case of study in northwestern Argentina
Erico G. Gaál, Hernán De Ángelis
Functional analysis of metal production tools of the Late Bronze Age in Eastern Ukraine
Olga Zagorodnia
Points or knives? The multiple sides of bifaces at the Bahia Colorada Site, Englefield Island, Southernmost Patagonia
Consuelo Huidobro Marín
Part 3 – Building socio-economic system
The curious case of house 54 from Lep...
Hence, exploring the interaction between different chaînes opératoires is crucial for a more global concept of the toolkit with all its components and it is a precondition for paleo-ethnographic reconstructions of technical systems and economies. Starting from a functional perspective, the papers in this book explore various topics such as apprenticeship, group dynamics, social status, economy, technological evolution, spatial organization, mobility patterns and territories, or adaptations to cultural and environmental changes.
This collection of papers, presented at the AWRANA conference in 2018, constitutes a major sign of the dynamism, popularity and scientific importance of our discipline in current archaeological research. AWRANA 2018 was dedicated to the memory of H. Keeley.
Table of Contents
Preface
Richard Fullagar
Introduction
Sylvie Beyries, Caroline Hamon, Yolaine Maigrot
A Tribute to Lawrence Keeley through some personal recollections
Patricia Anderson
Lawrence Keeley and the Archaeology of hunter-gatherer societies. A work that transcends until today…
Maria Estela Mansur
Part 1 – Methodologies and referential
An attempt to better distinguish the micropolishes using visible spectroscopy
Renaud Gosselin
Experimental protocol on shell ornaments identifying techniques and stigma variability according to the utilized species
Leïla Hoareau, Chiara Zen, Sylvie Beyries
In the Prehistoric kitchen with stone identification of multifunctional tools through use-wear analysis
Emily Tochtrop, Danielle A. Macdonald
Use-wear analysis of plant processing in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of south-east of the contribution of ethnography
Cristina De Stefanis, Sylvie Beyries
What’s on the menu? An experimental approach to the functional study of Neolithic pottery
Pauline Debels
Comparison of the use-wear traces on bone awls and styluses – an experimental study
Monika Stelmasiak
Stones, bones and reeds operating chains in manufacture and use of artefacts for the production of basketry in the societies of Tierra del fuego
Vanessa Parmigiani, Anna Franch Bach, Maria Celina Alvarez Soncini, Hernán De Angelis, Maria Estela Mansur
Part 2 – Toward technical behavior
Lower Palaeolithic stone a techno-functional study of the Soucy 3P assemblage (France)
Juliette Guibert-Cardin, Félicien Capellari, Vincent Lhomme, Nelly Connet, Elisa Nicoud, Sylvie Beyries
Experimental archeology for the interpretation of the case study of the small tools of Fontana Ranuccio (late Lower Palaeolithic, central Italy)
Flavia Marinelli, Daniela Zampetti, Cristina Lemorini
Stone tool use and rejuvenation at the Late Paleolithic site of TH.413 Wadi Ribkout, southern Oman.
Yamandú H. Hilbert, Ignacio Clemente-Conte
Mesolithic bone adzes and mattock-heads from Poland. Some suggestions on their technology and function
Justyna Orłowska, Grzegorz Osipowicz
Assessing the function of trapezoidal bitruncations from Beg-er-Vil (Quiberon, France) through the use-wear methodology
Jorge Calvo Gómez, Grégor Marchand, David Cuenca Solana
New insights into the technological management of the Neolithic cowrie beads in the An experimental and traceological approach
Hala Alarashi
From the quarry to the use-wear analysis of the manufacture of schist bracelets in the Early Neolithic of north‐western Europe
Caroline Hamon, Nicolas Fromont, Eric Gaumé, Cécile Germain-Vallée
A functional analysis of abrading a case study from the Central Balkans
Vesna Vučković, Roberto Risch
Wild boar tusk artefacts from peatbog sites of northwestern Russia and northeastern Belarus (4th-2nd mill. BC): technology, function, context
Anna Malyutina, Maxim Charniauski
Fish exploitation during the Early Bronze Age Central the contribution of use-wear analysis at Mitrou
Marie-Philippine Montagné
Typological and functional study of few sickle inserts from Central Caucasus (according to the materials from Grakliani Hill)
Ana Tetruashvili
Lithic artifacts and the production of metallic goods. A case of study in northwestern Argentina
Erico G. Gaál, Hernán De Ángelis
Functional analysis of metal production tools of the Late Bronze Age in Eastern Ukraine
Olga Zagorodnia
Points or knives? The multiple sides of bifaces at the Bahia Colorada Site, Englefield Island, Southernmost Patagonia
Consuelo Huidobro Marín
Part 3 – Building socio-economic system
The curious case of house 54 from Lep...
350 pages, Paperback
Published April 23, 2021
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