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Class Slides Set 21 Tools and Technologies I Introduction: Basic Terms / Basic Types
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Tools and Technologies lithic (stone) bone, tooth, horn / antler
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Tools and Technologies lithic (stone) bone, tooth, horn / antler
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http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo/glossary.htm
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Glossary osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" keratic = "horn" osteodontokeratic
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Glossary osteo = "bone" osteodontokeratic
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Harappa (c. 3300-2800 B.C.) p. 466
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Magdalenian bone artifact. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 332.
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Glossary osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" osteodontokeratic
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http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/ask/a6.htm
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Glossary osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" keratic = "horn" osteodontokeratic
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Reconstruction of a Natufian gazelle horn reaping knife, with inset flint blades. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 393.
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Devon Island, High Arctic Canada. http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/rwpark/ArcticArchStuff/TLArts.html
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Tools and Technologies lithic (stone) bone, tooth, horn / antler
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Stone Tools and Technologies basic types basic techniques of manufacture basic tool uses Upper Paleolithic traditions lithic tools
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Stone Tools and Technologies basic types basic techniques of manufacture basic tool uses Upper Paleolithic traditions lithic tools
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Glossary tradition horizon
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Glossary similarity of elements over considerable time in a delimited area –site, locality or region tradition
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Cultural periods of the European Upper Paleolithic. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330. Upper Paleolithic traditions (SW France)
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p. 330 Upper Paleolithic traditions (SW France)
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Cultural periods of the European Upper Paleolithic. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.
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Brian Fagan, People of the Earth, 10th ed., p. 132. Solutrean
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Solutrean blade. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.
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Solutrean blade. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 351.
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Cultural periods of the European Upper Paleolithic. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.
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Source: Brian Fagan, People of the Earth, 10th ed., p. 132. Magdalenian
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http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/rwpark/ArcticArchStuff/TLArts.html
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 331. Magdalenian Spear-thrower (atlatl). Note the carving.
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Glossary tradition horizon
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Glossary similarity of elements over a large area during a “short” time span horizon
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Time line for New World Civililzations. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 479.
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Glossary characteristic item that marks an identifiable horizon horizon marker
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Toltec-style serpentine columns and Chacmool. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 491. Toltec serpentine columns Toltec chacmool
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Glossary flake tools core tools
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Glossary flake tools the smaller pieces struck off of a stone
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Core and flake. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 351.
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Major types of North American Paleo-Indian projectile points. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 386. ClovisFolsomPlanoDalton
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Burin. Solutrean blade. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.
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Glossary what is left over after a flake has been struck off of a stone core
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Core and flake. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 351.
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Stone Tools and Technologies basic types basic techniques of manufacture basic tool uses Upper Paleolithic traditions lithic tools
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#1 pebble tools
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Glossary rounded stone (pebble) struck with a similar stone (hammerstone), which creates a jagged edge, that serves as a chopping edge pebble tools aka “choppers”
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Pleistocene Subdivisions, Archaeological Industries and Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 298. sometimes pebble tools are also known as “Oldowan choppers”
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http://lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/oldowanstonetools.htm
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#2 Core and flake tools are “bifacial handaxes”
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Glossary Clactonian (flake) Acheulean (core) Abbevillian (core) Lower Paleolithic European and African bifacial hand axes
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Glossary Clactonian (flake) Acheulean (core) Abbevillian (core) Lower Paleolithic European and African bifacial hand axes
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bifacial handaxes Abbevillian aka “primitive” hand axes
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/axe/
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Life Nature Library, Early Man, p. 115.
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Glossary Clactonian (flake) Acheulean (core) Abbevillian (core) Lower Paleolithic European and African bifacial hand axes
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Acheulean bifacial handaxes
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Pleistocene Subdivisions, Archaeological Industries and Hominids. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 298.
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Acheulian biface (“hand axe”). Richard Effland, Maricopa CollegeMaricopa College
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Acheulian biface (“hand axe”). Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 278.
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Acheulian tools, mainly hand axes, from Olorgesailie, Kenya. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 278.
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Glossary Clactonian (flake) Acheulean (core) Abbevillian (core) Lower Paleolithic European and African bifacial hand axes
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/axe/
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http://www.dartfordarchive.org.uk/early_history/magnified/clactonian_flake_tools.html
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#3 blade tools
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Glossary a flake tool that is at least twice as long as it is wide a thin-edged fragment removed from a core blade tool
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Burin. Solutrean blade. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.
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Solutrean blade. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 351.
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http://lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/cloviswheredidcomefrompage2.htm
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Glossary having a notched edge or sawlike teeth serrated
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Glossary with a furrow or groove fluted
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Life Nature Library, Early Man, p. 112. fluting
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#4 microliths
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Glossary small stone tools usually produced from narrow blades punched from a core “micro” = “small” “lith” = “stone” microliths
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Brian Fagan, People of the Earth, 10th ed., p. 213.
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Glossary made of several parts e.g., harpoon, sickle, hammer... compound (composite)
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European Mesolithic stone axe in its antler sleeve, Shaped to fit into the socket of a missing wooden handle. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 389.
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Reconstruction of a Natufian gazelle horn reaping knife, with inset flint blades. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 393. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 393.
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Glossary with a “handle” hafted
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Clovis fluted points in simulated mountings. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 384.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1766683.stm
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Brian Fagan, People of the Earth, 10th ed., p. 106.
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Life Nature Library, Early Man, p. 114.
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Glossary “spear thrower” (Nahuatl, Aztec) atlatl
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 331. Magdalenian Spear-thrower (atlatl). Note the carving.
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#5 chopper copping and flake tools
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Glossary “chopper-chopping [flake] tools”...
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Movius Line
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Campbell and Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7th ed, p. 334. Movius Line
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