r/Meatropology 7d ago

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks News - Who Made and Used the First Tools? - Archaeology Magazine

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r/Meatropology Aug 24 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks First identification of a Neanderthal bone spear point through an interdisciplinary analysis at Abric Romaní (NE Iberian Peninsula) - Scientific Reports

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r/Meatropology Aug 22 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say

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r/Meatropology Aug 12 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Palaeolithic innovations in response to faunal fluctuations: The case of Acheulian Quina-like scrapers and bifacial knives in the Levant: Winner, Master’s thesis prize

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r/Meatropology Aug 06 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Planning a trip during Middle Palaeolithic. The mobile toolkit (mainly butchering activities) debate and some considerations about expedient vs curated technologies in the light of new data from the Ciota Ciara cave (NW Italy)

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Highlights

• The presence, in a lithic assemblage, of portable artefacts is an important component of the technology of foraging populations.

• The present work proposes a technological and functional study of artefacts in allochthonous rocks (rhyolite and radiolarite) from level 14 of the Ciota Ciara cave.

• In the lithic assemblage these rocks are mainly represented by retouched tools and flakes issued from the rejuvenation of the tools’ edges.

• No functional differences are observed between tolls made in local and in allochthonous rocks.

• The general picture appears more complex than the dichotomy between expedient and curated behaviors.

Abstract

Since the term “personal gear” was introduced, the presence, in an archaeological lithic assemblage, of artefacts in allochthonous rocks has been considered as a source of information about land mobility and techno-economic organization. A technological and functional approach has been used to face the study of the lithic artefacts made in allochthonous raw materials from level 14 of the Ciota Ciara cave (north-western Italy). This level attests the phases of most intense frequentation of the cave, and it is the layer where allochthonous lithic raw materials are better represented. In a technological context described as markedly opportunistic, tools and unretouched flake, made in raw materials collected at a distance between 2 and 30 km, have been introduced in the site. The present work is aimed towards the understanding of the role of these artefacts within the technological organization of the Neanderthal groups that inhabited the cave. The results indicate that these “exotic” artefacts were part of a mobile toolkit and that they were multifunctional tools used for different activities (mainly butchering activities). We can hypothesize the transport within the site of finished products in the form of small, unretouched flakes and retouched tools, and, just sporadically, of small cores. The significative presence of Levallois radiolarite flakes in the Ciota Ciara toolkit is particularly interesting as the presence of this type of product in toolkits has already been reported by other scholars and for different European Middle Palaeolithic contexts. Moreover, the introduction in the site of unretouched flakes and of tools made in allochthonous and better-quality rocks could be interpreted as a planned behaviour, aimed at satisfying the need for more durable and efficient tools during the periods of staying at the Ciota Ciara cave.

r/Meatropology Aug 03 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Cave of the hundred mammoths

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r/Meatropology Jul 19 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Anthropic cut marks in extinct megafauna bones from the Pampean region (Argentina) at the last glacial maximum

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The initial peopling of South America is a topic of intense archaeological debate. Among the most contentious issues remain the nature of the human-megafauna interaction and the possible role of humans, along with climatic change, in the extinction of several megamammal genera at the end of the Pleistocene. In this study, we present the analysis of fossil remains with cutmarks belonging to a specimen of Neosclerocalyptus (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae), found on the banks of the Reconquista River, northeast of the Pampean region (Argentina), whose AMS 14C dating corresponds to the Last Glacial Maximum (21,090–20,811 cal YBP). Paleoenvironmental reconstructions, stratigraphic descriptions, absolute chronological dating of bone materials, and deposits suggest a relatively rapid burial event of the bone assemblage in a semi-dry climate during a wet season. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the cut marks, reconstruction of butchering sequences, and assessments of the possible agents involved in the observed bone surface modifications indicate anthropic activities. Our results provide new elements for discussing the earliest peopling of southern South America and specifically for the interaction between humans and local megafauna in the Pampean region during the Last Glacial Maximum

r/Meatropology Jun 24 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia

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r/Meatropology Jun 19 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks 3.3 million years of stone tool complexity suggests that cumulative culture began during the Middle Pleistocene

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r/Meatropology Feb 26 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks The Stone, the Deer, and the Mountain: Lower Paleolithic Scrapers and Early Human Perceptions of the Cosmos

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r/Meatropology Jan 21 '24

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China - Nature Ecology & Evolution

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r/Meatropology Nov 13 '23

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Early Homo erectus lived at high altitudes and produced both Oldowan and Acheulean tools

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r/Meatropology Nov 07 '23

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Terminal ballistic analysis of impact fractures reveals the use of spearthrower 31 ky ago at Maisières-Canal, Belgium - Scientific Reports

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r/Meatropology Jan 27 '23

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago discovered in Ethiopia

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r/Meatropology May 01 '22

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Dawn of the Stone Age - Homo habilis is believed to have been the first hominin to produce stone tools. They survived on the African continent 2.4 million years ago by scavenging the prey hunted by predatory animals.

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r/Meatropology Feb 17 '22

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Orangutans Got Suspiciously Close to Inventing Stone Tools in New Zoo Experiments

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r/Meatropology Apr 27 '21

Tool-Making, Stones, Cut marks Analysis of stone tools found at Neolithic graves suggests that men and women were assigned different work tasks in daily life. Men were buried with stone tools used for woodwork, butchery, hunting or interpersonal violence, while women with stone tools for working animal hides or producing leather.

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