Use-Wear Analyses on Manos and Hide-Processing Stones

Adams, Jenny L.

doi:10.1179/009346988791974394

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“…Boshier, 1965;Maguire, 1965;Gould et al, 1971;Lee and DeVore, 1976;Yellen, 1977;Salazar et al, 2012) as well as in late Prehistory periods (i.e. Dodd, 1979;Adams, 1988;de Beaune, 1993;Adams et al, 2009;Dubreuil et al, 2015). Ethological research has shown that many non-human primate species habitually use stone tools for a variety of food-processing activities.…”

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Assessing the function of pounding tools in the Early Stone Age: A microscopic approach to the analysis of percussive artefacts from Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

Arroyo

Torre

2016

Journal of Archaeological Science

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This study explores the function of quartzite pounding tools from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) using microscopic and use wear spatial distribution analysis. A selection of pounding tools from several Bed I and II assemblages excavated by Mary Leakey (1971) were studied under low magnification (<100x), and the microscopic traces developed on their surfaces are described. Experimental data and results obtained from analysis of the archaeological material are compared in order to assess activities in which pounding tools could have been involved. Results show that experimental anvils used for meat processing, nut cracking and/or bone breaking have similar wear patterns as those observed on archaeological percussive artefacts. This is the first time that a microscopic analysis is applied to Early Stone Age pounding artefacts from Olduvai Beds I and II, and this paper highlights the importance that percussive activities played during the Early Pleistocene, suggesting a wider range of activities in addition to knapping and butchering.

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Assessing the function of pounding tools in the Early Stone Age: A microscopic approach to the analysis of percussive artefacts from Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

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Torre

2016

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…In this framework, it appears essential to determine to what extent grinding tools—traditionally thought to be employed in food processing—were also used to process a variety of plant materials and even non‐edible substances. Through ethnoarchaeological, residue and use‐wear analyses, several studies have demonstrated the multiple functions that archaeological grinding tools could have had (Hayden 1987; Adams 1988, 1997; Loy et al . 1992; Fullagar and Field 1997; Piperno and Holst 1998; Babot 1999a,b; Checa et al .…”

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Maize and Bone: Residues of Grinding in Northwestern Argentina*

Babot

Apella

2003

Archaeometry

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Archaeometric and archaeobotanical analyses of grinding residues inside an archaeological milling stone tool from the Cueva de los Corrales 1 site in northwestern Argentina are shown. Multiple analytical techniques are used to identify ground substances, and their results are compared and complemented. They give direct and reliable evidence of maize (Zea mays L.) and burned bone grinding in the pre-hispanic Argentine north-west, although the latter is little related to milling tasks.

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“…They are also interpreted as evidence for ritual or ceremonial activities, visual arts (rock art, body art and other forms of portable art) or burial practices. However, ochre is just one among a wide variety of minerals with red colouring properties available in natural deposits (hematite, heat‐treated goethite and maghemite, among others), and almost all of them have been used in the past for either symbolic or practical purposes; for example, as fixatives for hafting tools (Beyries and Inizan 1982; Allain and Rigaud 1989; Wadley 2005; Lombard 2007), as natural abrasives for fine polishing of bone tools and ornaments, as a natural antiseptic to tan leather (Audion and Plisson 1982; Adams 1988), to dry tendons for different uses (such us bow strings or for attaching stone tools to the shafts), and so forth.…”

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Identification, Processing and Use of Red Pigments (Hematite and Cinnabar) in the Valencian Early Neolithic (Spain)

2012

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The results of the first elemental and structural physicochemical analyses (SEM–EDX, TXRF, XRD, FTIR, GC and EDXRF) of Early Neolithic red pigment samples from the region of Valencia confirm one of the earliest uses of cinnabar (HgS) in Spain (5300 to 5000 cal bc). They also inform on the storage of massive quantities of hematite and the development of specific technologies of hematite‐based paint production and use. The samples were recovered at the three most significant Early Neolithic sites of the Mediterranean coast of Spain: Cova de l'Or (Beniarrés, Alacant), Cova de la Sarsa (Bocairent, Valencia) and Cova Fosca (Vall d'Ebo, Valencia), which together have provided the most important European collection of Cardial ceramic ware (chronoculturally diagnostic of the Early Neolithic).

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Use-Wear Analyses on Manos and Hide-Processing Stones

Cited by 79 publications

References 12 publications

Assessing the function of pounding tools in the Early Stone Age: A microscopic approach to the analysis of percussive artefacts from Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

Assessing the function of pounding tools in the Early Stone Age: A microscopic approach to the analysis of percussive artefacts from Beds I and II, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

Maize and Bone: Residues of Grinding in Northwestern Argentina*

Identification, Processing and Use of Red Pigments (Hematite and Cinnabar) in the Valencian Early Neolithic (Spain)

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