The use of point-impact techniques in stone processing (pecking) in the sites of forest Trans-Urals
Yu.B. Serikov
Abstract:For processing of stone and manufacture of tools, ancient man mastered a variety of methods and tech-niques — beating, splitting into flakes and plates, impact and spin retouching, grinding, sawing, drilling and some others. Of these, the least studied and insufficiently covered in the literature is the point-impact technique (pe-cking). Pecking could have been used both as an auxiliary technique and as the main one. When processing large tools (axes, adzes, pestles), which subsequently were polished, it was a… Show more
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