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Class Slides Set 21

Tools and Technologies I

Introduction: Basic Terms / Basic Types

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Tools and TechnologiesTools and Technologies

•lithic (stone)

•bone, tooth, horn / antler

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Tools and TechnologiesTools and Technologies

•lithic (stone)

•bone, tooth, horn / antler

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http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo/glossary.htm

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GlossaryGlossary

osteo = "bone"

donto = "tooth"

keratic = "horn"

osteodontokeratic

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GlossaryGlossary

osteo = "bone"

osteodontokeratic

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Harappa (c. 3300-2800 B.C.)p. 466

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Magdalenian bone artifact.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 332.

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GlossaryGlossary

osteo = "bone"

donto = "tooth"

osteodontokeratic

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http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/ask/a6.htm

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GlossaryGlossary

osteo = "bone"

donto = "tooth"

keratic = "horn"

osteodontokeratic

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Reconstruction of a Natufian gazelle horn reaping knife,

with inset flint blades.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 393.

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Devon Island, High Arctic Canada.http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/rwpark/ArcticArchStuff/TLArts.html

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Tools and TechnologiesTools and Technologies

•lithic (stone)

•bone, tooth, horn / antler

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Stone Tools and TechnologiesStone Tools and Technologies

• basic types

• basic techniques of manufacture

• basic tool uses

• Upper Paleolithic traditions

lithic

tools

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Stone Tools and TechnologiesStone Tools and Technologies

• basic types

• basic techniques of manufacture

• basic tool uses

• Upper Paleolithic traditions

lithic

tools

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GlossaryGlossary

tradition

horizon

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GlossaryGlossary

similarity of elements over considerable time in a delimited area

– site, locality or region

tradition

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Cultural periods of the European Upper Paleolithic.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.

UpperPaleolithictraditions

(SW France)

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p. 330Upper

Paleolithictraditions

(SW France)

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Cultural periods of the European Upper Paleolithic.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.

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Brian Fagan, People of the Earth, 10th ed., p. 132.

Solutrean

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Solutrean blade.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.

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Solutrean blade.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 351.

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Cultural periods of the European Upper Paleolithic.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.

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Source: Brian Fagan, People of the Earth, 10th ed., p. 132.

Magdalenian

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http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/rwpark/ArcticArchStuff/TLArts.html

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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 331.

Magdalenian Spear-thrower (atlatl). Note the carving.

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GlossaryGlossary

tradition

horizon

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GlossaryGlossary

similarity of elements over a large area during a “short” time span

horizon

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Time line for New World Civililzations.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 479.

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GlossaryGlossary

characteristic item that marks an identifiable horizon

horizon marker

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Toltec-style serpentine columns and Chacmool. Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 491.

Toltecserpentine

columns

Toltecchacmool

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GlossaryGlossary

flake tools

core tools

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GlossaryGlossary

flake tools

the smaller pieces struck off of a stone

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Core and flake.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 351.

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Major types of North American Paleo-Indian projectile points.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 386.

Clovis Folsom Plano Dalton

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Burin. Solutrean blade.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.

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GlossaryGlossary

what is left over after a flake has been struck off

of a stone

core

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Core and flake.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 351.

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Stone Tools and TechnologiesStone Tools and Technologies

• basic types

• basic techniques of manufacture

• basic tool uses

• Upper Paleolithic traditions

lithic

tools

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#1

pebble

tools

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GlossaryGlossary

rounded stone (pebble) struck with a similar stone (hammerstone),which creates a jagged edge,

that serves as a chopping edge

pebble toolsaka “choppers”

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Pleistocene Subdivisions, Archaeological Industries and Hominids.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 298.

sometimes

pebble tools

are also

known

as

“Oldowan

choppers”

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http://lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/oldowanstonetools.htm

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#2

Core and flake

tools

are

“bifacial

handaxes”

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GlossaryGlossary

• Clactonian (flake)

• Acheulean (core)

• Abbevillian (core)

Lower Paleolithic European and African

bifacial hand axes

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GlossaryGlossary

• Clactonian (flake)

• Acheulean (core)

• Abbevillian (core)

Lower Paleolithic European and African

bifacial hand axes

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bifacial

handaxesAbbevillian

aka “primitive”hand axes

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http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/axe/

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Life Nature Library, Early Man, p. 115.

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GlossaryGlossary

• Clactonian (flake)

• Acheulean (core)

• Abbevillian (core)

Lower Paleolithic European and African

bifacial hand axes

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Acheulean

bifacial

handaxes

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Pleistocene Subdivisions, Archaeological Industries and Hominids.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 298.

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Acheulian biface (“hand axe”).

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 278.

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Acheulian tools, mainly hand axes, from Olorgesailie, Kenya.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 278.

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GlossaryGlossary

• Clactonian (flake)

• Acheulean (core)

• Abbevillian (core)

Lower Paleolithic European and African

bifacial hand axes

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http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/axe/

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http://www.dartfordarchive.org.uk/early_history/magnified/clactonian_flake_tools.html

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#3 bladetools

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GlossaryGlossary

•a flake tool that is at least twice as long as it is wide

•a thin-edged fragment removed from a core

blade tool

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Burin. Solutrean blade.Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 330.

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Solutrean blade.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 351.

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http://lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/cloviswheredidcomefrompage2.htm

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GlossaryGlossary

having a notched edge or sawlike teeth

serrated

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GlossaryGlossary

with a furrow or groove

fluted

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Life Nature Library, Early Man, p. 112.

fluting

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#4 microliths

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GlossaryGlossary

small stone tools usually produced from narrow blades punched from a core

“micro” = “small” “lith” = “stone”

microliths

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Brian Fagan, People of the Earth, 10th ed., p. 213.

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GlossaryGlossary

made of several partse.g., harpoon, sickle, hammer . . .

compound(composite)

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European Mesolithic stone axe in its antler sleeve,

Shaped to fit into the socket of a missing wooden handle.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 389.

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Reconstruction of a Natufian gazelle horn reaping knife,

with inset flint blades.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 393.Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 393.

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GlossaryGlossary

with a “handle”

hafted

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Clovis fluted points in simulated mountings.

Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (8th ed), p. 384.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1766683.stm

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Brian Fagan, People of the Earth, 10th ed., p. 106.

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Life Nature Library, Early Man, p. 114.

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Life Nature Library, Early Man, p. 114.

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GlossaryGlossary

“spear thrower” (Nahuatl, Aztec)

atlatl

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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed., p. 331.

Magdalenian Spear-thrower (atlatl). Note the carving.

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#5 choppercopping

andflaketools

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GlossaryGlossary

“chopper-chopping [flake] tools” . . .

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Movius Line

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Campbell and Loy, Humankind Emerging, 7th ed, p. 334.

Movius Line

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Next: Tools and Technologies II

Making and Using Lithic Tools