{"title":"Potential of a large-scale functional analysis to reconstructing past human activities at the Final Palaeolithic site of Lommel-Maatheide","authors":"M. Arzarello, A. Leplongeon","doi":"10.24072/pci.archaeo.100012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163299,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Archaeology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122703725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An insight into traditional method of food production in India","authors":"O. Crandell","doi":"10.24072/pci.archaeo.100011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100011","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Norbu Jamchu Thongdok, Gibji Nimasow & Oyi Dai Nimasow Ran-thok and Ling-chhom: indigenous grinding stones of Shertukpen tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India 10.5281/zenodo.5118675","PeriodicalId":163299,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Archaeology","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128992294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A practical computational approach to stratigraphic analysis using conjoinable material culture","authors":"Orengo Hector A.","doi":"10.24072/pci.archaeo.100010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a novel method to assess the integrity and amount of mixing between excavation layers. The method, termed the TSAR approach (Topological Study of Archaeological Refitting), uses network typologies and edge metrics to assess the level of cohesion and admixture between two layers. The nodes (artifacts) are connected based on object refitting and adjusts for sample size. The utility of this method compared to other approaches is tested using simulated data and excavation data. The author created a package in the R programming language to facilitate the method","PeriodicalId":163299,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Archaeology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125654550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A step towards the challenging recognition of expedient bone tools","authors":"C. Daujeard","doi":"10.24072/PCI.ARCHAEO.100008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/PCI.ARCHAEO.100008","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Luc DOYON, LI Zhanyang, WANG Hua, Lila GEIS, Francesco d’ERRICO A 115,000-year-old expedient bone technology at Lingjing, Henan, China 10.31235/osf.io/68xpz","PeriodicalId":163299,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Archaeology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129650104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimentation as a driving force for innovation in the Pre-Still Bay from Southern Africa","authors":"A. Delagnes","doi":"10.24072/pci.archaeo.100006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100006","url":null,"abstract":"Experimentation preceding innovation in a MIS5 Pre-Still Bay layer from Diepkloof Rock Shelter (South Africa): emerging technologies and symbols (2020), EcoEvoRxiv, ch53r, ver. 3 peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Archaeology. limited and the chaînes opératoires uncomplete. Yet, the economy of the raw materials (sensu Perles 1992) makes unlikely that some of the reduction sequences are not independent from each other’s, such as the quadrangular flakes on quartzite slab and the bipolar/pieces esquillées pieces on quartz pebbles. We have one refitting of a series of blanks that shows a bladelet reduction sequence on a flake. We have a few laminar/elongated blanks that cannot be coming from the previously mentioned reductions sequences, nor it comes from the bifacial reduction sequence. I agree that there are uncertainties regarding the clear distinction between the flake and triangular flakes reduction sequences, with the exception of the “accourcies points” category which comes from an independent reduction sequences (triangular flakes with a triangular section and -dominantly- a cortical side). In the introduction of 3.2, we recall the fact that our sample size is limited and shall be implemented by further studies: “Considering the limited size of the whole assemblage, we acknowledge that further studies will have to complete the present set of observations. “ last sentence ending the paper “It is assumed that people from Southern Africa during the MIS5, regardless of their technological differences, formed a pool of people culturally and biologically connected to each other.” Sentence that we have consequently modified as follow: “It is assumed that people from Southern Africa during the MIS5, regardless of their technological and cultural differences, formed a pool of people socially and biologically connected to each other.”","PeriodicalId":163299,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Archaeology","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128487683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the opportunistic debitage – an experimental approach.","authors":"A. Leplongeon","doi":"10.24072/pci.archaeo.100007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100007","url":null,"abstract":"This is one main challenge in studying this type of debitage in a consistent way, as the opportunistic debitage leads to a wide range of core and flake morphologies, which have sometimes been interpreted as resulting from different technical behaviours, but which the are part of a same ‘methodological substratum’ This article aims to further characterise the ‘opportunistic debitage’. The study relies on four archaeological assemblages from Italy, ranging from the Lower to the Upper Pleistocene, in which the opportunistic debitage has been recognised. Based on the characteristics associated with the occurrence of the opportunistic debitage in these assemblages, an experimental replication of the opportunistic debitage using the same raw materials found at these sites was conducted, with the aim to gain new insights into the method. Results show that experimental flakes and cores are comparable to the ones identified as resulting from the opportunistic","PeriodicalId":163299,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Archaeology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131382932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The means of complexity in a lithic reduction sequence","authors":"Arzarello Marta","doi":"10.24072/pci.archaeo.0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.0","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Cedric Gaucherel and Camille Nous Platforms of Palaeolithic knappers reveal complex linguistic abilities 10.31233/osf.io/wn5za","PeriodicalId":163299,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Archaeology","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128588770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Palaeolithic adaptations through niche modelling - the case of the French Middle Gravettian","authors":"R. Felix","doi":"10.24072/pci.archaeo.100003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100003","url":null,"abstract":"“The French Middle Gravettian represents an ideal case study for attempting to identify mechanisms behind the diversity observed in the archaeological record.” Why is the authors advocate so? Do the authors mean by “diversity” the lithic techno-typological variability? Is the lithic variability the main characteristic that makes this a perfect case study? Introduction. “These two typo-technological facies appear to differ both chronologically and geographically.” According to the state-of-the art presented by the authors, this seems not to be the case. Both industries are overlapping chronologically and geographically. In fact, this is one of the aspects considered later in the results and discussion section. As an example, the poor absolute chronological dating of some of the sites is problematic, as discussed by the authors, and pointed as one of the main limitations of the study.","PeriodicalId":163299,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Archaeology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125348268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new software to improve standardization and quality of data in zooarchaeology","authors":"F. Rivals","doi":"10.24072/pci.archaeo.100001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.archaeo.100001","url":null,"abstract":"A recommendation of: Emmanuel Discamps TIPZOO: a Touchscreen Interface for Palaeolithic Zooarchaeology. Towards making data entry and analysis easier, faster, and more reliable 10.31219/osf.io/aew5c","PeriodicalId":163299,"journal":{"name":"Peer Community In Archaeology","volume":"502 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134367904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}