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Brown, Andrew G. "The changing role of lithic artefacts in later prehistoric England". Thesis, University of Reading, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306047.
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Alsharekh, Abdullah M. S. "The archaeology of central Saudi Arabia : investigations of lithic artefacts and stone structures in northeast Riyadh". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271969.
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Ford, Stephen S. "The nature and development of prehistoric settlement and land use in the middle Thames region (8000-500bc) with special reference to the evidence from lithic artefacts". Thesis, University of Reading, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314925.
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Bereiziat, Gérald. "Variabilité des comportements techniques du Dryas ancien à la fin du Bølling : Analyse techno-économique comparée du matériel lithique de cinq gisements tardiglaciaires du Jura méridional". Thesis, Bordeaux 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011BOR14443.
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Ce travail a pour objectif de préciser, à travers la composante lithique de cinq gisements, le cadre chrono-culturel des dernières populations de chasseurs-cueilleurs venues occuper le Jura méridional au sortir de la dernière grande glaciation. Normalisée par une réflexion engagée sur le degré de préservation des ensembles archéologiques, l’étude du matériel lithique, menée sous une double perspective technologique et économique, permet d’éclairer les comportements ayant orienté la conduite technique des individus et de discuter la structuration de ces groupes sur un axe synchronique et diachronique s’étendant du 15ème millénaire au 11ème millénaire avant le présent. Ces nouveaux acquis permettent ainsi de redéfinir la place des assemblages sur l’espace jurassien et de contrôler l’hypothèse d’une région carrefour soumise à de multiples influencesThe present thesis is aimed at defining more closely the chronocultural frame of late glacial populations on the basis of lithic artefacts from five sites in the Southern French Jura. Starting from a taphonomic analysis, a techno-economical approach illuminates the variability of individual technological behaviour and finally discusses the particular humain groups on a synchronic and diachronic axis from 15.000 untill 11.000 yr B.P. These new results permit to redefine the place of these assemblages in the context of the Jura mountains and thus to establish the Southern French Jura within the Rhine-Saone-Rhone area as a crossing point of multiple influences
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Vuckovic, Vesna. "Noelithic economy and macro-lithic tools of the Central Balkans". Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669666.
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Having worked on my master thesis on the macro-lithic tools from the Neolithic sites of the central part of Serbia or so-called Middle Morava valley, we noticed that there is not enough interest in this archaeological category in the central Balkans. The short research tradition and the small number of researchers have resulted in an insufficient number of published research results. This situation limits the implementation of new methodological approaches, such as those developed in the other parts of southern and central Europe, and weakens the advance in the archaeological knowledge on prehistoric economies. In order to overcome these problems, we have examined 2174 macro-lithic tools from the 12 Neolithic settlements (~ 5900 - 4650/4600 BC cal) from the Central Balkans. Thus, we have applied economic theory as the theoretical background of the geological, morpho-technical and functional analysis of macro-lithic artefacts (chapter 2).
The study presents settlements, the archaeological context in which the analysed artefacts were found, paleo-environmental and geomorphological settings of the Central Balkans. One part of the thesis displays the results of the petrographic analysis of raw material from other Neolithic archaeological sites from previous studies, and samples from geology outcrops from the Central Balkans. The same part presents the results of our geoarchaeological survey related to macro-lithic artefacts from Motel Slatina and Turska česma, Slatina. The petrographic analysis of the studied artefacts also allows us to identify the location and the distance from which raw materials derived, the exploitation method and the existence of territorial borders between supply areas.
Functional analysis has revealed for the first time, an appearance of standardized macro-lithic tools. This result has defined high volume production and characterized economy of the Late Neolithic. These results allow us to observe technological changes among the Early and Late Neolithic macro-lithic societies and economic differences between settlements and regions during the Late Neolithic.
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Page, S. N. "Cultural transmission of lithic artefact traditions : an experimental approach". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1458015/.
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Experimental methods for exploring the idea that cultural variation can be explained as part of a process analogous to that of biological evolution have been used in psychology to examine how human copying error effects the transmission of simple artefact form. Applying these methods in an archaeological framework, this study is the first of its kind to develop a programme of transmission chain experiments exploring different aspects of skill, social interaction and copying error and their effect on the evolution of artefact form in two different Palaeolithic technologies: blade production and Acheulean handaxe manufacture. In the blade replication experiment, form trajectories produced by two different levels of skill could be distinguished, with the more skilled knappers choosing to pass on the best match for blade length, in preference to shape or ridge pattern. In the Acheulean experiments, in conditions where loss of refinement features was expected, a surprising result was the consistent survival of planform symmetry. Where maintaining refinement was the focus of the teaching condition, thinning was achieved to a high level, without loss of size, but paradoxically, symmetry survived less well. It was concluded that the level of knapping skill, in all transmission scenarios, was a key factor in the formation of attribute variation. Difficulty experienced when aligning results from experimentally produced transmission biases with archaeological assemblages, demonstrated that in reality, cultural transmission was likely a fluid process where differing biases occurred at different times within the lifecycle of each Palaeolithic group. The specific signal provided by archaeological assemblages is likely to reflect the skill level and position of the knappers within that cycle, rather than the existence of a singular type of transmission bias. This approach provides new and enhanced ideas on the nature of cultural transmission in the Middle Pleistocene groups of Homo heidelbergensis, reinforcing the importance of teaching in the culture evolutionary process.
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Susino, George J. "Analysis of lithic artefact microdebitage for chronological determination of archaeological sites". Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20050914.150905/index.html.
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Susino, George J. "Analysis of lithic artefact microdebitage for chronological determination of archaeological sites /". Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41079617m.
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Walker, Elizabeth Anne. "Collecting the past : aspects of historiography and lithic artefact analysis for the creation of narratives for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales". Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2017. http://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/728/.
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This submission for a PhD BY published work examines archaeological historiography and lithic artefact studies concerning aspects of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales. The critical analysis connects the published works through the theoretical approach of biography. It draws out themes of archaeological, straigraphic and museum context where appropriate. The critical analysis commences with an examination of publications concerning the history of research at Palaeolithic cave sites in Wales. It identifies the sources and methodologies used then analyses their effectiveness for presenting histories of caves. The historiography of lithic artefact studies is then examined before an analysis is offered of the methodological approaches of technology, chronology, typology and the chaine operatoire as used in the published works. By applying the concept that artefacts have biographies, the archaeological context for individual and surface assemblages of lithic artefacts is explored. This leads to a discussion of archaeological projects and examines the fieldwork techniques adopted in the publications to elucidate archaeological context. There is an examination of the factors that influence the resulting archive and a discussion of its use as a resource for determining past work at archaeological sites. By exploring thesetopics the concept of biographies of people, places , artefacts and projects emerges. These biographies are drawn together into an assessment of their use for presenting archaeological narratives for regions of Wales. The final conclusions draw the aims of the critical analysis of the published works together before offering concluding thoughts about the continuation of antiquarian traditions in collecting lithic artefacts across Wales.
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Masclans, Latorre Alba. "Estudi de les comunitats neolítiques de l’Horitzó dels Sepulcres de Fossa (nord-est de la península Ibèrica, c. 4.000-3.400 cal ANE) a partir de les anàlisis tecno-funcionals dels artefactes polits i bisellats". Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/458141.
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The present dissertation generates a new data corpus which makes it possible to resize and widen the current interpretative framework about the communities living in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula around the turn of the fifth and fourth millennia Before Christ. The empirical foundation of this research is the analysis of polished and bevelled stone artefacts, found both in funerary and domestic contexts. In order to accomplish the goals of this research, it has been necessary to expand the use-wear analysis methodology and adapt it to the study of the kind of stones that are examined here through the development of extensive an experimental programme.
The new data provides fresh insight into the raw material management, the technical choices and the productive processes in which the tools were employed by the studied Neolithic communities. The results of our research help us to understand and explain the documented variability from a sociological point of viewAquesta tesi gener un nou corpus de dades que eixampla l’actual marc interpretatiu pel que fa a les comunitats que van viure al nord est de la Península Ibèrica entre el final del cinquè i principis del quart mil•lenni ANE. El fonament empíric d’aquesta investigació és l’anàlisi dels instruments de pedra polida i bisellada trobats en contextos funeraris i domèstics. En aquesta direcció ha estat necessari expandir la metodologia d’anàlisis funcional per tal d’adaptar-la a l’estudi del tipus de litologies examinades mitjançant el desenvolupament d’un ampli programa experimental. Les noves dades han permès conèixer en profunditat la gestió de les matèries primeres i el valor objectiu dels ítems estudiats així com els processos productius en els quals varen ésser utilitzats entre les societats Neolítiques. Aquests resultats ens han permès entendre i explicar la variabilitat documentada al registre des d’un punt de vista sociològic
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Alves, Daniela Maria. "A indústria lítica do sambaqui Mar Casado, litoral do estado de São Paulo". Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-22022011-150029/.
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A pesquisa aqui apresentada trata do estudo da cultura material lítica do sambaqui Mar Casado. Este sambaqui situava-se na cidade de Guarujá, estado de São Paulo. O sambaqui Mar Casado foi pesquisado entre os anos de 1961 e 1962 e juntamente com outros sítios litorâneos paulistas, pesquisados no mesmo período, faz parte da história da Arqueologia brasileira. Este trabalho desenvolveu-se de modo a melhor compreender as pesquisas empreendidas em um contexto arqueológico diferente do vivido atualmente, além de revalorizar antigos acervos conservados no museu. A cultura material lítica encontrada nos sambaquis brasileiros é bastante diversificada e apresenta suas especificidades. Os artefatos brutos e polidos, particularmente, receberam pouca atenção no decorrer da pesquisa arqueológica. Este estudo pretendeu analisar os artefatos líticos por meio da abordagem tecnológica, buscando observar as marcas de uso deixadas nos artefatos. A análise demonstrou que a população de Mar Casado encontrou um modo eficaz de administrar o uso de seus objetos líticos: usando várias superfícies do mesmo artefato para diversos fins. Isto significa dizer que esses artefatos tinham como característica a multifuncionalidade. Os sambaquieiros de Mar Casado provavelmente fizeram uso desses artefatos para processar vegetais, grãos, sementes e outros alimentos, além de usá-los para triturar pigmentos ou ainda como abrasivos em materiais como osso, madeira, concha.The research presented here deals with the study of lithic material culture of the shell mound Mar Casado. This shell mound was located in the city of Guarujá, São Paulo. The shell mound was searched between the years 1961 to 1962 and along with other coastal sites in São Paulo surveyed in the same period, part of the history of Brazilian Archaeology. This work was developed in order to better understand the archaeological research undertaken in a context different from that experienced today, and upgrade old preserved in museum collections. The lithic material culture found in shell mounds in Brazil is very diverse and has its specificities. The rough and polished artifacts, particularly, have received little attention in the course of archaeological research. This study sought to examine the lithic artifacts through technological approach, seeking to observe the use-wear of artifacts. The analysis showed that the population of Mar Casado found an effective way to manage the use of their lithic objects, using various surfaces of the same artifact for various purposes. This means that these artifacts had the characteristic of multifunctionality. The population of Mar Casado probably did use these artifacts to process vegetables, grains, seeds and other foods, and use them for grinding pigments or abrasive materials such as bone, wood, shell.
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Burroni, Daniela, Randolph E. Donahue, A. Mark Pollard y M. Mussi. "The Surface Alteration Features of Flint Artefacts as a Record of Environmental Processes". 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3254.
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NoThis paper introduces a method to study the degree of change that affected a prehistoric context as the result of environmental processes. It is based on the direct examination of a representative sample of stone tool by-products, and on the identification of all surface alteration features. We summarize the theoretical bases for the formation of some wear features and the main results of a number of experiments involving interaction between chert flakes and sediments. Experimental results include: (1) the wear rate of flakes is not constant; (2) the wear rate increases as the size of the grains that compose the matrix increases; (3) fine grained chert resists wear better then coarse grained chert; and (4) the presence of moisture will trigger some chemical reactions that promote wear and the formation of films on chert surfaces. We apply these findings to the cave site of Grotta di Pozzo, Italy, and conclude that, strictly within the area sampled, there is low degree of disturbance and low intensity of chemical processes that may, however, confound the reconstruction of human activities in this part of the cave.
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Spitzer, Angela. "Lithic Economies and Self-Sufficiency: Stone tool Production and Consumption in a Late Prehistoric Community of Moloka'i, Hawaii". Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/47057.
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This study examines the inter- and intra-site assemblage variability of lithics excavated from six late prehistoric sites in leeward West Moloka’i, Hawaii. Both religious and domestic sites are represented including fishing shrines (ko’a) and a high-status house site. A comprehensive technological approach was employed integrating usewear, typology and individual flake attribute analysis to identify production and consumption behaviours. Expedient tool manufacture and use was identified at most sites including the use of amorphous cores for flake tool production.
Of particular significance was the identification of late stage, small-scale adze manufacture within an attached shrine enclosure of a high status house site. The proximity of the debitage to the religious feature is evidence of ritual production. Small-scale adze production in such settings may have enabled individuals and/or households to gain status and wealth through ritual performance and the production of prestige goods. This has implications for the study of the organisation of adze production and craft specialisation and suggests that ritual production is not necessarily an indicator of chiefly control.
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Alexander, Katharine. "A typological and technological analysis of stone artefacts from the Magubike archaeological site, Iringa Region, southern Tanzania". Master's thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1560.
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Previous archaeological research in southern Tanzania has focused on Plio-Pleistocene sites documenting early hominid evolution, or alternatively, the late Holocene Later Stone Age and Iron Age sites documenting the transition from foraging to food production. However, recent surveys and test excavations conducted by Dr. Pamela Willoughby in Iringa have revealed the regions potential for also contributing to the study of the Middle Stone Age, the time period and technological system that coincides with the appearance of anatomically modern humans. Analysis of lithics recovered from two 1m2 test pits during 2006 test excavations at Magubike rockshelter demonstrate the site contains sequences yielding Middle Stone Age, Later Stone Age, and Iron Age materials. Michael Mehlmans lithic typology is used to place the lithics within a relative cultural historical context. Further analysis documents patterns and intensity of lithic reduction, raw material utilization, and other aspects of lithic production at Magubike throughout time.
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Moll, Rosa Matsileng. "A technological study of the lithic artefacts from the Earlier Stone Age site of Maropeng in the Craddle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa". Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25033.
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A dissertation submitted to the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg for the degree of Master of Science.
March 2017.Maropeng is the only known open-air Earlier Stone Age site in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. Excavations yielded one of the largest Early Acheulean assemblages in the Cradle of Humankind, with 693 artefacts. This represents a small sample of the material in the artefact bearing horizon, which is estimated to cover an area of approximately 191200m². The assemblage is dominated by large cores and flakes, mainly on locally sourced quartzites. A combination of site formation processes has led to the removal of small flaking debris, and thus the previous analysis by Pollarolo et al. (2010) focused on large cutting tools and cores. This study aimed to determine whether a dominant phase of the Acheulean techno-complex was evident from an in situ excavated assemblage, the hypothesis maintained by Pollarolo et al. (2010). A technological study of the specific production strategies was carried out, focusing on multiple attributes of cores, flakes and LCTs, and various methods for assessing reduction (e.g. Toth 1985; Kuman 2001; Braun et al. 2008b; De la Torre 2011). The analysed data was compared to well-established Early Acheulean sites both in eastern and southern Africa. Results show that cores have been reduced in casual and multifacial strategies, following naturally available platforms. Reduction was limited with many cores having few flake scars and retaining large percentages of cortex. The relatively low flake scar count was consistent on all core sizes, but flake scar sizes increased with core size. Knappers were able to produce feather terminated flakes on cores most of the time but did not correct mistakes or rejuvenate platforms. The large cutting tools are few, with both unifacially and bifacially shaped pieces displaying primary and secondary removals. Secondary shaping is only found on handaxes and roughouts, where knappers unsuccessfully attempted to thin the central mass of the blank. Cleavers were made on large flake blanks with naturally flat, straight tips and possessed only primary shaping. The flakes, however, were found to associate technologically with the LCTs and more exploited cores. The majority corresponded with an intense reduction sequence, but very few flakes were found that correspond to the high number of casually reduced cores. The simple cores, and limited LCT shaping, represent an early phase of the Acheulean techno-complex, while many flakes derive from largely more complex core working. The implications for this complexity are a long-term accumulation on the landscape, with hominids displaying multiple behavioural traits within the lithic production.
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Gustafsson, Gillbrand Patrik. "Stenbruk : Stenartefakter, råmaterial och mobilitet i östra Mellansverige under tidig- och mellanmesolitikum". Licentiate thesis, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35782.
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This thesis examines artefacts, raw materials and lithic technology between c. 9200–6200 cal BC in Eastern Central Sweden. The overall purpose of this study is to investigate when people first came to Eastern Central Sweden and where they came from. More precisely, it provides a typological, geographical and chronological survey of artefacts and the use of different raw materials. The study deals with assemblages with artefacts from more than thirty archaeologically excavated sites and loose finds in Eastern Central Sweden. The objects consist of chubby pecked axes, core axes, flake axes, shaft hole picks, microliths and micro burins, points, burins, rulers, unifacial blade core, conical cores, micro blade cores, blades, drills, retouched blades and micro blades. The artefacts have been compared with established typologies and chronologies for the rest of the Nordic countries and to some extent Russia and the Baltic States. An analysis of different raw materials present at Early and Middle Mesolithic sites in Eastern Central Sweden was also carried out. The materials are put into a chronological and geographical context. The raw materials included in the study are the non-local rocks flint and Cambrian flint, as well as local raw materials such as quartz, greenstone, local vulcanite, mylonite and red porphyry. From 9200 cal BC there is evidence of the first groups of people in the area, just shortly after that the Weichselian ice cap had withdrawn. Throughout the period studied the artefacts as well as the non-local raw materials exhibit great similarities to those found in the western part of Sweden. The study also shows, regarding the use of different raw materials and presence of certain artefacts, that some major events took place, suggesting a new chronological time frame for the Early- and Middle Mesolithic periods. In addition, a discussion regarding mobility and migration in Eastern Central Sweden during Early Post Glacial time is carried out.
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Mitchell, Myles Bevan. "The Esperance Nyungars, at the Frontier: An archaeological investigation of mobility, aggregation and identity in late- Holocene Aboriginal society, Western Australia". Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117827.
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This thesis documents the results of an Aboriginal
community-based archaeological research project in the Esperance
region, southern Western Australia. It is based on analysis of
rock art, stone arrangements and flaked stone artefacts. The aim
is to understand the role of the study sites – Belinup and
Marbaleerup – within patterns of movement that underpinned
society and economy in this region during the late-Holocene. The
research explores concepts of identity (Jones 1997; Meskell and
Preucel 2004) relating to the local Esperance Nyungar people, and
the broader Noongar and Western Desert cultural blocs. It has
been suggested that negotiations over territory, law and identity
during the recent past were directly related to the expansion of
the Western Desert cultural bloc (Gibbs and Veth 2002), which
situates the study area at a dynamic frontier of cultural change.
Exploration of these questions leads to a discussion about the
historical construction of Esperance Nyungar identity.
The study sites are hypothesised to have functioned in the past
as aggregation locales (Conkey 1980). Investigation of this
hypothesis is illuminative; firstly, for understanding more about
the study sites; and secondly about the application of the
aggregation concept, and its limitations for archaeology. The
results inform a discussion of how mobility (Binford 1980; Kelly
1992) and aggregation can be usefully applied together to
investigate the intersections of social and economic elements in
hunter-gatherer settlement.
As a conceptual tool for archaeology, identity is challenging
because it cannot be directly interpreted from material culture
in a simple way. Despite the challenges, identity is an important
tool for understanding past societies. Identity is investigated
here by mapping the occurrence of symbols across landscapes and
considering how these may, or may not, relate to notions of
identity and connections to place. The approach begins with what
is known (contemporary identity and connection), and works
backwards through time and outwards through space towards the
unknown. Identity is a powerful way to link the archaeological
past with the contemporary descendent community.
The process of undertaking a community-based research partnership
is discussed, with critical reflection on the challenges and
successes. An argument is presented for how and why community
input and ownership is critical to the success of archaeological
research into Aboriginal pasts in Australia and abroad.
The results demonstrate the inherent dynamism in Aboriginal
society in southern Western Australia and highlight a historical
legacy to the processes of cultural change underpinning Esperance
Nyungar identity today. Those processes predate the colonial
interruption, and continue into the post-Native Title era. This
leads to a discussion and critique of the Native Title system,
which often neglects to acknowledge the nuanced realities of
Aboriginal societies and the inherent mutability of identity and
connections across time and space. It is argued that the internal
social dynamics of Aboriginal society are an important part of
identity, as people continually negotiate who they are and how
they relate to people and places. This constant process of
identity-making is a fundamental part of Aboriginal culture and
society now and into the distant past.
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Theden-Ringl, Fenja. "Common cores in the high country. The archaeology and environmental history of the Namadgi Ranges". Phd thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149482.
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This thesis provides an update to the Aboriginal and
environmental histories of the ‘high country’ in southeastern
Australia from the terminal Pleistocene to the recent past. Its
focus is the Namadgi Ranges, representing the northern-most
outliers of the Australian Alps. The study combines
archaeological excavations of rock shelter sites – from Wee
Jasper in the north to the southern Namadgi valleys – with
environmental reconstructions from adjacent peatlands. In a
context of changing local environments, the findings provide new
perspectives on when and how Aboriginal people were active in the
mountains, and allow for a re-evaluation of existing
archaeological models of occupation and technological change.
AMS radiocarbon dates, sediment geochemistry, quantitative stone
artefact analyses and other proxies contribute to solidifying the
chronology and characteristics of high country habitation.
Evidence of terminal Pleistocene activities is found at Wee
Jasper in the Namadgi foothills, but remains elusive at higher
elevations (> 1000 m). The revised datasets also reveal a
previously unidentified period of low-intensity habitation across
the ranges from the early to mid Holocene period (8000 to 5000
BP), possibly in response to a Holocene ‘climatic optimum’.
The new evidence suggests that people may have largely abandoned
the high country from 5000 or 4500 BP. From 2000 BP, however,
evidence of habitation reappears, culminating in evidence for a
maximum of occupation during the past 1000 years. In combination
with an evaluation of known archaeological data from the high
country and around its margins, the findings presented herein
contradict several existing occupational and technological
models, and also caution against the application of broad-scale
cultural models across southeastern Australia.
A regional environmental history is constructed by analyses of
sediments that started to build up 16,000 years ago as the
climate warmed. Fire event reconstruction based on charcoal,
stratigraphic clues in peat sediments, geochemical signatures of
landscape productivity and instability, and a faunal record from
Wee Jasper provide a detailed record of change. Comparison of the
archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets reveals a
potential link in these two records, in the form of a tentatively
identified signal of anthropogenic burning during the early to
mid Holocene. More generally, the environmental history provides
a backdrop of changing climates and landscape processes to which
Aboriginal people adapted and responded over thousands of years.
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Simões, Cátia Sofia Paulino. "Estudo dos Materiais da Estrutura E de Castanheiro do Vento (Horta do Douro, Vila Nova de Foz Côa)". Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/96572.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Arqueologia e Território apresentada à Faculdade de LetrasO sítio arqueológico do Castanheiro do Vento, que data do período Calcolítico, fica situado na freguesia de Horta do Douro, concelho de Vila Nova de Foz Côa, no cimo de um cabeço à cota de 730 m de altitude. Identificado em 1998 tem sido consecutivamente intervencionado até à data, à exceção de três anos (2013, 2014 e 2020).A presente dissertação tem como objeto de estudo a estrutura subcircular E. Esta estrutura do tipo “bastião” localiza-se no lado sudoeste do sítio arqueológico e insere-se no recinto secundário. A análise do conjunto artefactual seguiu as tipologias adotadas anteriormente para o estudo de outros bastiões do Castanheiro do Vento. Através do estudo destes materiais podemos verificar cerâmicas de pastas compactas e muito polidas com impressões penteadas como decoração. Os fragmentos de barro apresentam negativos de elementos vegetais o que vem reforçar a ideia de que as paredes do sítio integravam elementos vegetais revestidos e argamassados com barro.Ainda que o xisto seja a matéria-prima mais abundante no sítio arqueológico este não foi utilizado para o fabrico de materiais líticos, mas sim o quartzo e o quartzito, o que poderá estar relacionado com o fator da dureza e durabilidade do material.Os elementos de moagem provenientes desta estrutura encontravam-se todos muito fragmentados e apresentam indícios de reutilização para outras funções que não a moagem.Ao compararmos o bastião E com os bastiões (B.A; B.B; B.C; e B.D) estudados verificamos semelhanças tanto a nível arquitetónico como dos conjuntos artefactuais. Os materiais apresentam características semelhantes entre si e inserem-se no período Calcolítico. As tipologias de construção diferem pouco entre elas. Todas estas estruturas foram "condenadas" a certa altura, característica apenas detetada nos bastiões do M1 e do R.A.O estudo de mais uma estrutura do tipo bastião do sítio do Castanheiro do Vento é mais um passo para a compreensão de um sítio tão diversificado e das comunidades que o habitaram.
The archaeological site of Castanheiro do Vento, which dates from the Chalcolithic period, is located in Horta do Douro municipality of Vila Nova de Foz Côa on top of a hill at 730 m high. Identified in 1998, it has been consecutively intervened to date with the exception of 3 years (2013, 2014 and 2020).The present dissertation has as object of study the subcircular structure E, this “bastion” type structure is located on the southwest side of the archaeological site and is inserted in the secondary enclosure. The analysis of the artefactual set followed the typologies previously adopted for the study of other bastions of Castanheiro do Vento. Through the study of these materials we can verify ceramics with compact pastes highly polished and combed prints as decoration. The clay fragments present negatives of plant elements, which reinforces the idea that the walls of the site were composed of plant elements covered with clay.Although shale is the most abundant raw material in the archaeological site, it was not used for the manufacture of lithic materials, but rather quartz and quartzite, which may be related to the material's durability factor.The grinding elements from this structure were all very fragmented and show signs of reuse for functions other than grinding.When comparing the bastion E with the bastions (B. A; B.B; B.C and B. D) studied, we verified similarities both in terms of architecture and artifact sets. The materials have similar characteristics to each other and fall within the Chalcolithic period. The types of construction differ little between them. All these structures were "condemned" at a certain point, a characteristic only detected in the bastions of M1 and R.A.The study of yet another bastion-like structure at the Castanheiro do Vento site is another step towards understanding such a diverse site and the communities that inhabited it.
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Blažková, Tereza. "Odpad v kruhu: výpovědní potenciál artefaktů z rondelu v Praze-Ruzyni". Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-321522.
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This thesis is focused on research of the rondel (circular ditch) located in the Prague- -Ruzyně area, dated to Late Neolithic Era with the Stroked Pottery culture. Quantitative, qualitative and spatial analysis of rondel's object fillings were carried out and the results and interpretation are presented in this thesis. Particularly thanks to Stroke-ornamented pottery analysis, it was possible to determine the relative chronology of the ditches filling. The interpretation of the material analysis and material spatial distribution tried to describe the trends associated with the formative processes and the development of origin of the ditches fillings. This work brings the results of processing of archeological findings and field documentation of a fully explored rondel, situated in the settlement of the Stroked Pottery culture. This work contributes to the understanding of Late Neolithic settlement structure and the rondels in general. Catalogue of findings is included. KEY WORDS: Late Neolithic - Stroked Pottery culture - Circular ditch - spatial analysis - formation processes - pottery - lithics - daub - animal skeletal remains