The colossal hats (<em>pukao</em>) of monumental statues on Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile): Analyses of <em>pukao</em> variability, transport, and emplacement
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Gravettian weaponry: 23,500-year-old evidence of a composite barbed point from Les Prés de Laure (France)
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Revealing invisible brews: A new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer
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A prehistoric Egyptian mummy: Evidence for an ‘embalming recipe’ and the evolution of early formative funerary treatments
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Corrigendum to “Raman spectroscopy of lipid micro-residues on Middle Palaeolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave, Siberia” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 95 July 2018 52–63]
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<sup>230</sup>Th dating of coral abraders from stratified deposits at Tangatatau Rockshelter, Mangaia, Cook Islands: Implications for building precise chronologies in Polynesia
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Toward a versatile protocol for radiocarbon and proteomics analysis of ancient collagen
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New technology and archaeological practice. Improving the primary archaeological recording process in excavation by means of UAS photogrammetry
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Shape as a measure of weapon standardisation: From metric to geometric morphometric analysis of the Iron Age ‘Havor’ lance from Southern Scandinavia
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Active percussion tools from the Oldowan site of Barranco León (Orce, Andalusia, Spain): The fundamental role of pounding activities in hominin lifeways
Posted on July 3, 2018 by ARCAS
Publication date: August 2018Source:Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 96 Author(s): Stefania Titton, Deborah Barsky, Amèlia Bargallo, Josep Maria Vergès, Miquel Guardiola, José García Solano, Juan Manuel Jimenez Arenas, Isidro Toro-Moyano, Robert Sala-RamosDated to 1.4 Mya, the Barranco León site (Orce, Andalusia, Spain) is currently the oldest and richest late Lower Pleistocene stone tool assemblage discovered so far in Europe. Archeological and paleontological remains are found clearly associated in lacustrine deposits traversed by a small channel. This paper provides new data about the lithic assemblage from level D, focusing on the abundant active percussion implements that form a part of the highly divers set of limestone macro-tools unique to this assemblage. Morpho-technological and experimental analysis of these tools allows us to hypothesize about the kinds of activities that might have been carried out by hominins at this site. Experimental work allows us to define percussive trace morphologies and to identify new types of percussion tools in the collection, beyond those of classical, ellipsoidal morphology. Analysis of the stone surfaces used for active percussion demonstrates that, while some of the tools could have been used for stone knapping, other hammer morphologies are not well adapted for this kind of activity. The morphology of the tools and the type of percussion damage displayed on their active surfaces provide criteria with which to widen the activity range of the hominins that used them. This study of the percussion instruments from Barranco León contributes essential data with which to buttress the growing interest in the macro component of Oldowan stone toolkits African and Eurasian sites and their possible uses.