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'Prehistoric Technology' 40 years later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy: Proceedings of the International Congress Verona (Italy) 20-23 April 2005
Laura Longo, Natalia Skakun, Massimo Saracino and Martina Dalla Riva
This book includes papers from the congress: Prehistoric Technology 40 Years Later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy held in Verona (Italy), 20-23 April 2005. Sessions: Methodology (seven contributions); Hunter-Gatherers (nine contributions); Food Producers (eight contributions); Complex Polities (six contributions); Burial Context (six contributions); Posters (thirty-two contributions); Round Table (eight contributions).
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Contents
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Foreword
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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ORAL SESSION
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5.1. Methodology
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S.A. Semenov and new perspectives on the experimental-traceological method
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Comprehensive analysis of prehistoric tools and its relevance for paleo-economic reconstructions
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The contribution of ethno-archaeological macro- and microscopic wear traces to the understanding of archaeological hide-working processes
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Functional analysis of grinding stones: the blind-test contribution
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SEM functional analysis and the mechanism of microwear formation
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In the knapper’s hands: identifying handedness from lithic production and use
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Kinematics in use-wear traces: an attempt of characterization through image digitalisation
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5.2. Hunter-Gatherers
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Hafting traces on flint tools
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Subsistence strategies at Zengpiyan, South China
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Use-wear analysis of retouched lithic tools from the Abric Romaní Middle Palaeolithic site (Barcelona, Spain)
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Typology, technology and use-wear: the necessary integration. An example from the Aurignacian site of San Cassiano (Arezzo, central Italy)
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Functional analysis of the backed tools coming from the Gravettian layers 23 and 22 of Paglicci Cave (Foggia, Italy)
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Bilancino, a specialized site for “latent technology”: an integrated approach
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The complexity of an Epigravettian site viewed from use-wear traces. Insights for settlement dynamics in the Italian eastern Alps
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The relationship between coastal and inland settlements in Mesolithic South-East Norway. An experimental approach
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The functional significance of Sauveterrian microlithic assemblages: broadening the focus of investigation
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5.3. Food Producers
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Stone axes as cultural markers: technological, functional and symbolic changes in bifacial tools during the transition from hunter-gatherers to sedentary agriculturalists in the southern Levant
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Mortar versus grinding-slabs function in the context of the neolithization process in the Near East
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Economic efficiency of Meso-Eneolithic settlements in southern Caucasus: the results of the traceological analysis of stone instruments
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Harvesting technology during the Neolithic in South-West Europe
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Activities on 7 Early Neolithic houses belonging to Darion in Belgium. First results of lithic use-wear analysis
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Looking for prehistoric basketry and cordage using inorganic remains: the evidence from stone tools
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Toolkits and technological choices at the Middle Neolithic site of Schipluiden, The Netherlands
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The role of techno-functional analysis of flint assemblages for the interpretation of internal arrangement of Eneolithic dwellings in the Vyatka river basin (Kirov Oblast, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia)
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5.4. Complex Polities
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Lithic perspectives on metallurgy: an example from Copper and Bronze Age South-East Iberia
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The use of metal tools in the production of bone artefacts at two Bronze Age sites of the south-western Balkans: a preliminary assessment
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Use-wear traces on bone remains from Later Prehistoric settlements
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Towards a global functional analysis
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Anchor axes: a case-study of wear traces analysis on ethno-archaeological stone tools from Brazil.
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Manufacture and use of stone tools in the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. The analysis of the last phase of the shell midden KH-4 at Karoline (250-350 cal. AD)
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5.5 Burial Context
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From traces to function of ornaments: some Neolithic examples
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Use-wear analysis of long blades. Funeral contexts of the Neolithic-Chalcolithic in North-East Iberia
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Signs of deliberate damage on the weapons from Altay Neolithic burials
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Projectile points as signs of violence in collective burials during the 4th and the 3rd millennia cal. BC in the North-East of the Iberian peninsula
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Sacrificial stone knives from Abusir
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Functional analysis as a tool for the interpretation of mortuary practices. A case-study from the Corded Ware Culture graves at Zielona, southern Poland
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POSTER SESSION
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6.1. Methodology
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Identification of anthropic and non-anthropic traces on the osteological remains of Contrada Stretto-Partanna (Trapani, western Sicily, Italy): layers 1-16
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Cooking and firing, on heated sandstone: an experimental approach by SEM
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An experimental approach to formation of use-wear traces on quartzite tools
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The bone mattock from the Mesolithic site of Plawienko 31 (Pomerania, Poland). Use-wear analysis and experimental method for determination of function and manufacturing processes
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Tracing traces from present to past. The use of shell, flint and stone artefacts on Morel and Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, FWI
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Experimental testing with polished green stone axes and adzes: technology and use
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Bone tools use-wear analysis and image analysis: test of 3D digital restoration of worked and used surfaces
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Barbed and tanged arrowhead of extra-Cantabrian Solutrean: experimental progamme
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Food preparation traces in ceramics. Functional interpretation of pots and jugs from Sant’Antimo (Piombino– Central Italy) based on organic residues
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6.2. Hunter-Gatherers
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The bone assagaies of Grotta Continenza (Trasacco, L’Aquila, Italy): technological and microscopic analysis
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Stone Tools and Early Agriculture at Kuk Swamp, Papua New Guinea
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Villa Ladronaia: a Middle Palaeolithic site near Cecina (Livorno, Italy)
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Hunting, what? Early Mesolithic backed points in north-eastern Italy
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Payre (Ardèche, France) early Middle Palaeolithic site. An example of macroscopic traces on tools and flakes: utilization as side-scrapers and stone tips (hand implements, projectile points) in an OIS 5 human occupation
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Functional inferences of flint implements of the Mousterian site at La Mouline (St. Astier, Dordogne, France)
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Blade technology of the eastern Bromme (Podol culture, Valdai Uplands). Allerød- Dryas III (11.8 – 10.2 ka)
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Engraved stones from the San Bartolomeo Upper Palaeolithic flint workshop (Abruzzo, central Italy)
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Perforated bone plates and string production in the Mesolithic: a case-study from site Stanovoye 4, Upper Volga
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6.3 Food Producers
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Sickles of early farmers of Azerbaijan
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Production and function(s) of obsidian tools at the Neolithic site of Contrada Diana (Aeolian Islands, Sicily)
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Neolithic bone needles and vegetal fibres working: experimentation and use-wear analysis
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Eneolithic flint workshop-settlements in north-eastern Bulgaria
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Cereal harvesting and processing at the Middle Neolithic site of Schipluiden, a coastal site in the Lower-Rhine basin
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The Neolithic settlement of Lugo di Grezzana (Verona, Italy). A lessinic flint emporium
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Use wear analysis: application on the Ripatetta lithic industry. Preliminary results
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Functional analysis of tools used in ancient ceramic production
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6.4 Complex Polities
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Microwear analysis and metal tools. The study of use wears traces and the contribution to the understanding of protohistoric societies
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The so called “selci strane di Breonio”: an ethno-archaeological and social case in the Lessini Mountains (Verona)
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Stone vase drilling in Bronze Age Crete
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The lock of heaven’s doors
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6.5 Burial Context
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Stone Age burial sites in eastern Tatarstan: use-wear and technological analyses of the flint assemblages
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Ethno-historical analogies and functional contexts: grinding/pestling tools from the Iron Age site of Monte Loffa (Verona, Italy)
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7. Round Table
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From East to West; functional analysis and the analogical reasoning.A reflection on scinetific practice
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Technician or researcher? A visual answer
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One who had never been false to himself
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A story of the missing chapter: Sergey Semenov and his discovery
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From production traces to social organisation: Towards an epistemology of functional analysis
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Tool functions and ethnographical analogies
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S.A. Semenov and his outstanding discovery in 20th century archaeology
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Experimental archaeology: the Italian experience
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Typology, function, use-wear and context: where is the common vision?
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9. Functional analysis: Lewis Binford and his contribution
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THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC
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8. Recalling friends
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List of participants
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Published: 2008
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407332741 (ebook)
- 9781407302713 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1783