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{"title":"North American Clovis Point Form and Performance V: An Experimental Assessment of Spear Thrusting Penetration Depth and Entry Wound Size","authors":"Jacob Baldino, Scott McKinny, Jaymes Taylor, Michael Wilson, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S. Walker, Brett Story, Michelle R. Bebber, Metin I. Eren","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2270255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2270255","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study is an assessment of Clovis spear thrusting penetration depth and entry wound size. This work is the fifth contribution in a series of experiments aimed at shedding light on the functional performance of distinct Clovis point forms. Here, using highly controlled and standardized procedures, we had a participant who had previously trained with bayonets and hand-to-hand combat thrust seven spears, each tipped with a distinct Clovis point form, into a ballistic gel target. Our statistical analysis of the 203 thrusts revealed, among several findings, that Clovis plan-view form does influence penetration depth and entry wound size. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that the functional selection of attributes could have contributed to Clovis point form variation.KEYWORDS: Clovislithic technologyexperimental archaeologyevolutionary archaeologyNorth America AcknowledgementsWe are appreciative to Julianne Taylor for taking photographs during the experiment. J.B., S.M., J.T., M.R.B., and M.I.E. are supported by the Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences, who generously provided the funding (to M.R.B.) for the ballistics gel in this experiment. We are also appreciative to editor Grant McCall and the three anonymous reviewers whose positive and constructive comments improved our manuscript.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data Availability StatementThe authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article [and/or] its supplementary materials.Notes1 In Eren et al. (Citation2023) we mistakenly reported two different knife handle diameters, one in the text (25.4 mm, i.e., one-inch), and one in Figure 1 (31.7 mm). The correct diameter is 25.4 mm.2 In light of their concluding paragraph (Pettigrew & Bamforth, Citation2023, p. 29), Pettigrew and Bamforth’s (Citation2023:, p. 28) criticism of our work regarding Clovis hunting of live mammoths (Eren et al., Citation2021, Citation2022c) makes little sense when their ballistics research involves dead bison. Based on their logic and published statements, holding these two animal types, and animation states, equal is “untenable” and “highly erroneous” (Pettigrew & Bamforth, Citation2023, p. 28, 29).3 Pettigrew et al. (Citation2023) suggest that kinetic energy (KE) and momentum can be better predictors of projectile penetration than TCSA/TCSP. We do not doubt this hypothesis and believe that it may be correct under specific conditions. Indeed, we have written that non-stone-point factors such as heavier darts or faster velocities “may even largely determine … penetration” (Eren et al., Citation2022c, p. 5). One issue worth mentioning here, however, is that at no point have we ever written that TCSA/TCSP were the predominant factors in projectile penetration. All we have written is that TCSA/TCSP correlates with penetration all else being equal (including KE, which in some circumstanc","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135567959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Variable Perspectives on “Standardization in the Stone Age”","authors":"J. Pargeter, Huw S. Groucutt","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2267386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2267386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Broad-Spectrum Foraging, Trade, and Lithic Technology: A First Approach to the Slab Stone Tools from Prehispanic Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina","authors":"Gisela Sario, Marcos Salvatore, Florencia Costantino, Sebastián Pastor, Matías E. Medina","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2262785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2262785","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe article presents the study of the slab stone tools collected at the San Roque locality (Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina), a poorly known tool type that merits more detailed studies. . The assemblage was also analyzed from a technological-functional point of view, but the source of raw materials was also investigated to infer the range of past mobility and/or the size of trade networks. The major cost of tools was represented by the systematic acquisition of the raw material from the quarries located 25–200 km rather than by manufacturing. Technological attributes and use-wear on active edges suggest that they were broad-functional tools linked to the need for a broad-spectrum adaptative strategy that required diverse tools for processing a wide variety of foodstuff and their by-products. The landfall of crop plant cultivation ca. 1200 years BP, probably increased the need for this tool type, reinforcing pre-existent trade networks for raw material acquisition. .KEYWORDS: Lithic technologyHolocenebroad-spectrum foraging basetool stonesquarries AcknowledgmentOur acknowledgment also extends to Museo Arqueológico Numba Charava, Reserva y Laboratorio Achala Sacate, Agencia Córdoba Cultura, J. Sfragulla, G. Guraieb, J. Montegú, M. Leipus, D. Rivero, J. Belardi, R. Barberena, L. Tissera, M. Gritti, I. Traktman and M. Traktman, who provided professional advice, equipment and replied to our numerous requests to improve the original text.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba [Proyecto CONSOLIDAR 33620190100011CB], the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [PIP 11220200100770CO] and of the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica [grant number 2016-201-0677].Notes on contributorsGisela SarioGisela Sario is an Adjunt Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Professor of the Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina). She got the degree of Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) in 2011. She is focusing his research on the Late Holocene foragers and horticuralist from Southern Punilla Valley. There, she has been leading research grant-funded projects since 2018, where she carried out archaeological surveys, stratigraphic excavations, and the analysis of multiple evidence, including lithic, pottery remains, and architecture. Moreover, she also made significant contributions to the archaeological knowledge of early peopling of the Americas in Sierras de San Luis, a neighboring mountain range from Sierras of Córdoba. She published the results of her research in high-impact peer-reviewed journals from Argentina, Chile, Spain, Italy, the USA, the UK, and Germany.Marcos SalvatoreMarcos Salvatore is Geologist of the Comisión Nacio","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135194828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The “Stubby” Deer Antler Billet: Examples from the Oklahoma Plains Woodland","authors":"Leland C. Bement, John E. Hueffed, Kristi L. Wyatt","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2257411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2257411","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTTwo short antler billets found on the floor of a storage/refuse pit at site 34WD130 in northwestern Oklahoma provide archaeological evidence for the intentional use of “stubby” billets in flintknapping. Radiocarbon dating of one of the billets yielded an age of 650 to 662 cal AD, placing the billet within the Plains Woodland period of western Oklahoma chronology. Associated artifacts corroborate this age. Evidence for the method of billet manufacture as well as evidence of use are presented. Links provide 3D models of the pair for better viewing and hands-on access.KEYWORDS: Antler Billetlithic replicative experimentOklahomaPlains Woodland AcknowledgementsThis project was not possible without the support of local residents, including Travis Rutledge and Josh Cooke. Fieldwork was accomplished by J. Hueffed and L. Bement. Photogrammetry and modeling was performed by K. Wyatt. F. Sellet provided leads to additional archaeological billets. Logistical support was provided by the Oklahoma Archeological Survey, The University of Oklahoma. We thank the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their comments that helped strengthen this article.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsLeland C. BementLeland C. Bement is a senior archaeologist at the Oklahoma Archeological Survey, The University of Oklahoma, Norman. He specializes in faunal analysis in the North American Great Plains.John E. HueffedJohn E. Hueffed is a graduate student in the Anthropology Department at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He is also a graduate research assistant in the State Archeologists Office at the Oklahoma Archeological Survey, The University of Oklahoma, Norman.Kristi L. WyattKristi L. Wyatt is an Emerging Technologies Librarian at the Bizzell Library, The University of Oklahoma, Norman. She is also a Museum Preparator and Associate Exhibition Designer at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman.","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135149744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New Analysis of Unifacially Shaped Technology from the Tropical Lowlands of Colombia","authors":"Marina González-Varas, Carlos E. López, Martha C. Cano","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2257409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2257409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe Middle Magdalena River Valley in central Colombia provides evidence of early human occupation between 13000 and 12000 cal BP during the global Younger Dryas period, characterized by mixed lithic industries involving both bifacial and unifacial technology. This article describes a unifacially shaped artifact discovered in the locality of Puerto Berrío, Antioquia, Middle Magdalena, central Colombia. Due to its high diagnostic value, a detailed technological analysis of its manufacture is presented to enable comparisons with similar artifacts in South America. Techno-structural analysis reveals a complexly manufactured piece with different tools, suggesting different usages. Various manifestations of this type of highly curated tool have been found in various regions of northern South America during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, indicating that unifacial technology is a characteristic tool type of this stage, beyond projectile points. This article also aims to open a dialogue on what a tropical lithic tool is in its individuality and variability.KEYWORDS: Middle Magdalena river valleyearly peopling of the AmericasColombiaunifacial technologycurated technology AcknowledgmentsWe deeply appreciate the help of our colleagues at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (UTP) during the collection analysis stay. We would like to thank the support of the Fundación de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Nacionales and the Temple University (TU) of Philadelphia, USA. We would also be grateful to express a special thanks to Marcellus d’Almeida for his recommendations on technical illustrations.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The terminology associated with the description of South American unifacial technology remains problematic. Various authors have been primarily inspired by the original morphological typology of François Bordes (Citation1961). Although many authors have wrongly used the term « limace » to refer to the South American unifacially shaped tools, « limace » refers to a specific type of south american tool with specific morphological, technological and structural features, as recent defined by Lourdeau (Citation2010, Citation2015) and Moreno & López (Citation2023).Additional informationFundingThis work is part of M. González-Varas’s doctoral research, which has received financial support from the AnTET Team (Anthropologie des techniques, des espaces et des territoires au Pliocène et au Pléistocène) and the UMR 7041 ArScAn Equipe AnTET (Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité)","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135148890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Final Pleistocene-Early Holocene (∼40–8 ka) Lithic Industries in Southern China and Their Implications for Understanding the Prehistory of Mainland Southeast Asia","authors":"Yuduan Zhou, H. Forestier, Yun Wu, X. Ji, C. He, Tingting Liang, Ruxi Yang, Tengfei Wang, Xiaoying Chen, Xuan Wei, Sifu Cai, June-Yu Wei, Yinghua Li","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2247645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2247645","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49162135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Archaeological and Experimental Data from the Bipolar-on-Anvil Debitage in the Middle Paleolithic Site of Los Aljezares (Aspe, Alicante, Spain)","authors":"Margarita Vadillo Conesa, A. Eixea, J. Cuevas-González, D. Díez-Canseco","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2247643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2247643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44262102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heat Treatment of Chert in the Early Mesolithic at Rottenburg-Siebenlinden (Southwest Germany)","authors":"Hannah Huber, Y. Tafelmaier, C. Kind, P. Schmidt","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2244779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2244779","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45054780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Middle Holocene Lithic Technological Organization and Upland Land Use in the Upper Susitna River Basin, Alaska","authors":"John C. Blong","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2242120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2242120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48076924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Function, Style, and Standardization: Is the Proximal or Distal End of a Middle Stone Age Point More Variable?","authors":"Benjamin J. Schoville, Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise, Erik R. Otárola-Castillo, Jayne Wilkins","doi":"10.1080/01977261.2023.2233167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2233167","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Middle Stone Age (MSA) point styles may reflect the development of regional identities of human social groups. MSA people likely used these points for various functions including as weapon tips. Recent work in cultural evolution suggests that functional aspects of technology tend to be more standardized and subject to negative selective pressures, while stylistic aspects are highly visible and tend to be more variable. This study examines the patterns of segmented (proximal vs. distal) standardization for unretouched MSA points from six archaeological assemblages using landmark-based geometric morphometrics to quantify shape variation. Contrary to expectations, our results show that the proximal end has greater shape variation than the distal end. Segregating within point variation provides clues to past function and style patterns in the MSA. This approach also opens new avenues for exploring ethnographic and recent archaeological projectile points.","PeriodicalId":45597,"journal":{"name":"Lithic Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45943286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}