An Exegesis of the Curation Concept

Shott, Michael

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“…This is because assessments of relative curation are useful in testing models of changing mobility, land-use, economy, and technological organization, as well as in defining the relationships between tool design, labour investment and morphological standardization (for discussion of the value of the curation, tool design and use life concepts in addressing these questions see Ammerman & Feldman, 1974;Bamforth, 1986;Binford, 1979;Bleed, 1986;Close, 1991;Davis & Shea, 1998;Dibble, 1984Dibble, , 1995aDibble, , 1995bGordon, 1993;Hayden, Franco & Spafford, 1996;Hiscock, 1994Hiscock, , 1996Hiscock, , 1998Kelly, 1988;Kelly & Todd, 1988;Parry & Kelly, 1987;Holdaway, McPherron & Roth, 1996;Kuhn, 1990Kuhn, , 1992Kuhn, , 1995Nash, 1996;Neeley & Barton, 1994;Nelson, 1991;Odell, 1996;Shott, 1989Shott, , 1996Roland & Dibble, 1990;Torrence, 1983Torrence, , 1989.…”

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An Index of Invasiveness for the Measurement of Unifacial and Bifacial Retouch: A Theoretical, Experimental and Archaeological Verification

Clarkson

2002

Journal of Archaeological Science

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An Index of Invasiveness for the Measurement of Unifacial and Bifacial Retouch: A Theoretical, Experimental and Archaeological Verification

Clarkson

2002

Journal of Archaeological Science

156

101

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“…The highest-level descriptive variables recorded were raw material, type and size of debitage, presence of cortex, and type of platform. We also classified sites by function (residential or logistical, Binford, 1979Binford, , 1980Nelson,1991) and by technological strategy (Bamforth, 1986;Nelson, 1991;Shott, 1996), using the criteria of Binford (1979Binford ( , 1980, Nelson (1991), and Aldenderfer (1998). The presence of logistical sites would allow us to define a collector mobility strategy, which differs (along a continuum) from the forager mobility strategy.…”

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The Dry Puna as an ecological megapatch and the peopling of South America: Technology, mobility, and the development of a late Pleistocene/early Holocene Andean hunter-gatherer tradition in northern Chile

Osorio

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Quaternary International

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A B S T R A C T. Current scientific evidence shows that humans colonized South America at least 15,000 years ago, but there are still many unknown aspects of this process, including the major and minor migratory routes involved, and the pattern of successive occupation of a diverse continental mosaic of ecosystems. In this context, the role of the Andean highlands (_3400 meters above sea level) has been neglected, because of the supposedly harsh conditions for humans including hypoxia and cold climate. Nevertheless, the environmental and cultural resources available in the high Andes constitutes an important "megapatch" that should be assessed in terms of human settlement patterns. We review the evidence for late Pleistocene/ early Holocene hunter-gatherer occupation of one part of this megapatch, the northern Chilean Dry Puna, in its palaeoecological context. We focus on lithic technology, faunal remains, radiocarbon dates, and other archaeological materials related to different social activities, which allow us to suggest that groups of hunter-gatherers organized and adapted their way of life to highland ecosystems through logistical mobility, and curatorial strategies for lithic tool kits that included projectile points and other formalized tools. The morphology and technological processes involved are recognized over vast territories along the high Andes. We identify this material expression as the high south central Andean Archaic hunter-gatherer tradition, which also featured long distance mobile settlement systems and communication processes over this broad and distinct megapatch. More speculatively, we outline the hypothesis that these highland ecosystems constituted a suitable migratory route that may have been key for the early peopling of the continent, and contrast it with the alternative hypothesis of the initially secondary and seasonally intermittent exploitation of this habitat by hunter-gatherers dispersing along the Pacific coastal corridor.

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“…Estas características, sumadas a las entregadas en el acápite anterior relativas al aprovechamiento y tratamiento de las materias primas, nos permite atribuir a cada uno de estos valles una estrategia tecnológica diferente, mayormente expeditiva en Alto Simpson y conservada en Alto Cisnes, ya que en el primer caso nos enfrentamos a un conjunto que denota un mínimo esfuerzo tecnológico en su producción, lo cual, siguiendo a Nelson (1991), puede sugerir que este espacio fue en el pasado considerado como una fuente de recursos líticos altamente predecibles y favorables a las necesidades del grupo social. En el segundo caso, en cambio, observamos la preparación por adelantado de las materias primas y que atributos tales como la maximización de la vida útil, los diseños elaborados y conductas de reciclaje juegan un rol sustantivo (Shott, 1996), lo cual puede reflejar la anticipación de una ausencia de materias primas de calidad y/o la existencia de condiciones desfavorables para la preparación de instrumentos (Nelson, 1991). No obstante lo anterior, en ambos valles se aprovecharon recursos locales como parte de una estrategia oportunista, particularmente en relación al aprovechamiento de materias primas de calidades regular y baja para la talla.…”

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Gestión de recursos líticos y organización espacial de cazadores recolectores en la estepa de los valles de Cisnes y Simpson, Región de Aysén, Chile

2016

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RESUMENSe presenta un análisis comparativo de las ocupaciones de cazadores recolectores en los sectores estepáricos altos de dos valles de la región de Aysén, correspondientes a las cuencas de los ríos Simpson y Cisnes. El estudio se basa en el análisis de materiales líticos hallados en sitios superficiales a cielo abierto. Se evalúan las características tecnológicas y la función de los conjuntos líticos mencionados y se consideran las reconstrucciones ambientales disponibles para ambos sectores. Se discute el aprovechamiento y gestión de los recursos líticos que conforman la oferta local, para dar luces respecto de la organización espacial de los grupos humanos que ocuparon estos espacios durante el Holoceno tardío.PALABRAS CLAVE: tecnología lítica, gestión de recursos, organización espacial. LITHIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF HUNTER-GATHERERS IN THE STEPPE OF CISNES AND SIMPSON VALLEYS, AYSÉN REGION, CHILE ABSTRACTWe present a comparative analysis of hunter-gatherer occupations at the upper steppe portions of two valleys in the Aysén region, namely the Simpson and Cisnes basins. The study is based on the analysis of lithic materials located in the surface of open-air sites. We assess the technological characteristics and the function of the lithic assemblages and consider the available environmental reconstructions for each zone. The paper discusses the use and management of local lithic resources, in order to shed light on the spatial organization of the groups that occupied these areas during the late Holocene.

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An Exegesis of the Curation Concept

Cited by 195 publications

References 49 publications

An Index of Invasiveness for the Measurement of Unifacial and Bifacial Retouch: A Theoretical, Experimental and Archaeological Verification

An Index of Invasiveness for the Measurement of Unifacial and Bifacial Retouch: A Theoretical, Experimental and Archaeological Verification

The Dry Puna as an ecological megapatch and the peopling of South America: Technology, mobility, and the development of a late Pleistocene/early Holocene Andean hunter-gatherer tradition in northern Chile

Gestión de recursos líticos y organización espacial de cazadores recolectores en la estepa de los valles de Cisnes y Simpson, Región de Aysén, Chile

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