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Middle Paleolithic Skill Level and the Individual Knapper: An Experiment

Eren, Metin I. ; Bradley, Bruce A. ; Sampson, C. Garth

American antiquity, 2011-04, Vol.76 (2), p.229-251 [Periódico revisado por pares]

New York, US: Cambridge University Press

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Título:
Middle Paleolithic Skill Level and the Individual Knapper: An Experiment
Autor: Eren, Metin I. ; Bradley, Bruce A. ; Sampson, C. Garth
Assuntos: Analysis of archaeological features ; Anthropology ; Archaeological paradigms ; Field archaeology ; History of technology ; Learning ; Lithic industry ; Mass ; Material culture ; Methodology and general studies ; Polygons ; Prehistoric era ; Prehistory ; Prehistory and protohistory ; Raw materials ; Skills ; Surface areas ; Symmetry ; Teachers ; Typology, technology and attribute analysis
É parte de: American antiquity, 2011-04, Vol.76 (2), p.229-251
Descrição: It has been proposed that Paleolithic studies should abandon their focus on groups and turn instead to the individual. If individuals are to emerge from the lithics-dominated Middle Paleolithic record, the best chance of success is to identify the products of learner knappers from those of their mentors. To do so we need a framework of knapping standards by which to measure Middle Paleolithic skill level. Selected measurements on a sequence of 100 subcircular Levallois tortoise core reductions by a knapper of intermediate skill were compared with 25 reductions by his highly experienced instructor. Four measures emerge as potential markers of skill level: total stone consumption during initial core preparation, consumption from the upper and lower core surface, symmetry of the first detached Levallois flake, and failure rate of that detachment by overshooting the core's rim. These markers allow us to discriminate between the work of a modern learner and his mentor, but > 30 percent were misclassified. The learning trajectory is more complex than the mere honing of skills through practice and is punctuated by increasing numbers of mentor-like reductions. It follows that skill-level measures on their own are imperfect discriminators. Personal markers other than those of skill level must be found by which to seek individuals in the Middle Paleolithic record.
Editor: New York, US: Cambridge University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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Eren, Metin I. ; Bradley, Bruce A. ; Sampson, C. Garth

New York, US: Cambridge University Press

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