Prepared core reduction at the site of Kudu Koppie in northern South Africa: temporal patterns across the Earlier and Middle Stone Age boundary

Towards the Middle Palaeolithic in Western Europe: The case of Orgnac 3 (southeastern France)

“…Similar processes are observed in other European or Central Asian sites between MIS 9 and 7, related to the Early Middle Palaeolithic (Geneste, 1988;Chase, 1990;Wyner et al, 1993;Gamble and Roebrocks, 1999;Golovanova, 2000;Lhomme et al, 2000;Ranov and Schäfer, 2000;Bourguignon et al, 2004;Barsky et al, 2005;Olle et al, 2005;Dibble and McPherron, 2006;Grégoire et al, 2006;Fernandes et al, 2008), and also in Africa during the emergence of the MSA (Tryon et al, 2005;Tryon, 2006;Roure Johnson and McBrearty, 2010;Wilkins et al, 2010) or in the Levant for the Early Middle Palaeolithic (Stiner et al, 1999(Stiner et al, , 2009(Stiner et al, , 2011Barkai et al, 2003;Yeshurun et al, 2007;Shimelmitz et al, 2011).…”

Psychological components of middle paleolithic technology: The proceduralization of lithic core reduction

“…Effective ways for reconstructing and illustrating sequential data in lithic reduction studies exist most notably in the form of the lecture des schemas diacritiques method used in many examinations where tracking the pattern of core reduction is the primary objective (Allard, 2005;Bar-Yosef and Meignen, 2003;Boëda, 1986Boëda, , 1988Boëda, , 1995Grimm, 2000;Jaubert and Farizy, 1995;Meignen, 1995;Morala et al, 2005;Révillion, 1988;Vallin et al, 2006;Wilkins et al, 2010). In such cases, outlines of lithic cores are drawn with their flake scars numbered in sequence indicating the order in which each flake was removed.…”

“…Along with the work of Van Peer (1992,1998,2001,2007), in part represented in the present research, a number of important research projects have used lithic refitting as a part of their analyses (cf. Bodu, 1996;Close, 2000;Goring-Morris, 2003, 2007;Delagnes and Roche, 2005; Goring-Morris and Davidzon, 2006;Goring-Morris et al, 1998;Hallos, 2005;Marks and Volkman, 1987;Pigeot, 1987;Pollarolo et al, 2010;Schlanger, 1996;Villa, 1982;Wilkins et al, 2010). Despite its application challenges exist with regard to the viability of lithic refitting (Bar-Yosef and Van Peer, 2009;Bleed, 2004;Cahen, 1987;Cooper and Qui, 2006;Laughlin and Kelly, 2009).…”

The technology and significance of the Acheulian giant cores of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel

“…Within this topic, special attention has been paid to the sources of Levallois technology and its roots in the Acheulian giant cores (Champault, 1966;Kuman, 2001;McNabb, 2001;Tryon et al, 2006;Sharon and Beaumont, 2006;de la Torre et al, 2008;Lycett, 2009;Wilkins et al, 2010, to name but a few).…”