Experimental investigations into edge performance and its implications for stone artefact reduction modelling

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2164-2170

  Collins, Sophie ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Lithics; Performance; Reduction; Use

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MODELING; MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 44449105970     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.01.017     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Ahler S.A. Projectile form and function at the Rogers Rock Shelter, Missouri. Missouri Archaeological Society Research Series No. 8 (1971), Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia, MO
2. Baulmer M. Core reduction, flake production, and the Middle Palaeolithic industry of Zobiste (Yugoslavia). In: Dibble H.L., and Monet-White A. (Eds). Upper Pelistocene Prehistory of Western Eurasia (1888), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 255-274
3. Bietta A., and Grimaldi S. Patterns of reduction sequences at Grotta Breuil: statistical analyses and comparisons of archaeological vs experimental data. Fossil Man of Monte Circeo: Fifty Years of Studies on the Neandertals in Latium (1990-1991), Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Rome 379-406
4. Bisson M. Nineteenth century tools for twenty-first century archaeology? Why the middle paleolithic typology of Francois Bordes must be replaced. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 7 1 (2000) 1-48
5. Bleed P. Risk and cost in Japanese microcore technology. Lithic Technology 21 (1996) 95-107
6. Bleed P. Trees or chains, links or branches: conceptual alternatives for consideration of stone tool production and other sequential activities. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 8 1 (2001) 101-127
7. Bleed P. Cheap, regular and reliable: implications of design variation in Late Pleistocene Japanese microblade technology. In: Elston R.G., and Kuhn S.L. (Eds). Thinking Small: Global Perspectives on Microlitholization. Archaeological Papers, No 12 (2002), The American Anthropological Association 95-102
8. Boëda E. Levallois: a volumetric construction, methods, a technique. In: Dibble H., and Bar-Yosef O. (Eds). The Definition and Interpretation of Levallois Technology (1995), Prehistory Press, Madison 41-68
9. Brantingham P.J., Olsen J.W., Rech J.A., and Krivoshapkin A.I. Raw material quality and prepared core technologies in Northeast Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science 27 (2000) 255-274
10. Clarkson C. Holocene scraper reduction, Technological organization and landuse at Ingaladdi Rockshelter, Northern Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 37 2 (2002) 79-86
11. Clarkson C. An index of invasiveness and archaeological verification. Journal of Archaeological Science 61 (2002) 65-75
12. Clarkson C. Tenuous types: 'scraper' reduction continuums in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia. In: Clarkson C., and Lamb L. (Eds). Lithics 'Down Under': Australian Approaches to Lithic ReductionUse and ClassificationBritish Archaeological Reports International Monograph Series S1408 (2005), Archaeopress, Oxford
13. Collins, S., 2007. An experimental evaluation of the principles and frameworks for interpreting the function of archaeological stone artefacts. Unpublished PhD thesis, Australian National University.
14. Dibble H.L. Interpreting typological variation of Middle Paleolithic scrapers: function, style or sequence of reduction?. Journal of Field Archaeology 11 (1984) 431-436
15. Dibble H.L. The interpretation of Middle Paleolithic scraper morphology. American Antiquity 52 (1987) 109-117
16. Dibble H.L. Middle Paleolithic scraper reduction: background, clarification and review of evidence to date. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2 (1995) 299-368
17. Flenniken J.J., and Raymond A.W. Morphological projectile point typology: replication experimentation and technological analysis. American Antiquity 51 3 (1986) 603-614
18. Fox J. Cox proportional-hazards regression for survival data (2002). http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Fox-Companion/appendix-cox-regression.pdf
19. Frison G.C. A functional analysis of certain chipped stone tools. American Antiquity 33 2 (1968) 149-155
20. Gordon D. Mousterian tool selection, reduction and discard at Ghar, Israel. Journal of Field Archaeology 20 (1993) 205-218
21. Goodyear A.C. The Brand Site: A Techno-functional Study of a Dalton Site in Northeast Arkansas. Arkansas Archaeological Survey (1974)
22. Hiscock P.D. Raw material rationing as an explanation of assemblage differences: a case study of Lawn Hill, Northwest Queensland. In: Ward G.K. (Ed). Archaeology at ANZAS, Canberra. Canberra Archaeological Society (1984), Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra 178-190
23. Hiscock P.D. Bondian technology in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Archaeology in Oceania 28 2 (1993) 65-76
24. Hiscock P.D. Technological responses to risk in Holocene Australia. Journal of World Prehistory 8 3 (1994) 267-292
25. Hiscock P.D. The end of points. In: Sullivan M., Brockwell S., and Webb A. (Eds). Archaeology in the North. North Australia Research Unit (1994), Australian National University 72-83
26. Hiscock P.D. Mobility and technology in the Kakadu coastal wetlands. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 15 (1996) 151-157
27. Hiscock P.D. Transformations of Upper Paleolithic implements in the Dabba industry of Haua Fteah, Libya. Antiquity 70 (1996) 657-664
28. Hiscock P.D. Revitalising artefact analysis. In: Murray T. (Ed). Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia (1998), Unwin and Allen, Sydney 257-265
29. Hiscock P.D. Quantitative exploration of size variation and the extent of reduction in Sydney Basin assemblages: a tale from the Henry Lawson Drive Rockshelter. Australian Archaeology 57 (2003) 64-74
30. Hiscock P.D. Blunt and to the point: changing technological strategies in Holocene Australia. In: Lilley I. (Ed). Archaeology in Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands (2006), Blackwell 69-95
31. Hiscock P.D., and Attenbrow V. Reduction continuums in Eastern Australia: measurement and implications at Capertee 3. In: Ulm S. (Ed). Barriers, Borders, Boundaries. Tempus Vol. 7 (2002), University of Queensland 167-174
32. Hiscock P.D., and Clarkson C. Measuring artefact reduction: an examination of Kuhn's geometric index of reduction. In: Clarkson C., and Lamb L. (Eds). Lithics 'Down Under': Recent Australian Approaches to Lithic ReductionUse and ClassificationBritish Archaeological Reports International Monograph Series (2005), Archaeopress, Oxford 7-19
33. Hiscock P.D., and Clarkson C. Retouched notches at Combe Grenal (France) and the reduction hypothesis. American Antiquity 72 1 (2007) 176-190
34. Hiscock P.D., and Veth P. Change in the Australian desert culture: a reanalysis of tulas from Puntutjarpa. World Archaeology 22 (1991) 332-345
35. Hoffman C.M. Projectile point maintenance and typology: assessment with factor analysis and canonical correlation. In: Carr C. (Ed). For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis (1985), Westport Publisher, Kansas City, KS 566-612
36. Holdaway S., McPherron S., and Roth B. Notched tool reuse and raw material availability in French Middle Paleolithic sites. American Antiquity 61 (1996) 377-387
37. Inizan M.L., Reduron-Ballenger M., Roche H., and Tixier J. Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone (translated by J. Féblot-Augustins). Prééhistoire de la Pierre Taillée, Tome 5 (1999), CREP, Nanterre
38. Jefferies R.W. A technological and functional analysis of middle archaic hafted endscrapers from the Black Earth Site, Saline County, Illinois. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 15 (1990) 3-16
39. Jelinek A.J. Form, function and style in lithic analysis. In: Cleland C.E. (Ed). Cultural Change and Continuity (1976), Academic Press, New York 19-33
40. Jones P. Results of experimental work in relation to the stone industries of Olduvai Gorge. In: Leakey M.D., and Roe D. (Eds). Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds, 1968-1971 (1994), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 254-298
41. Kuhn S.L. A geometric index of reduction for unifacial stone tools. Journal of Archaeological Science 17 (1990) 585-593
42. Kuhn S.L. Blank form and reduction as determinants of Mousterian scraper morphology. American Antiquity 57 (1992) 115-128
43. Kuhn S.L. Mousterian Lithic Technology (1995), Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
44. Kuhn S.L. A perspective on Levallois from a 'non-Levallois' assemblages: the Mousteria of Grotta di Sant' Agostino. In: Dibble H.L., and Bar-Yosef O. (Eds). The Definition and Interpretation of Levallois Technology (1995), Prehistory Press, Madison 157-170
45. Lawless J.F. Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data (1982), John Wiley & Sons, New York
46. Marks A.E., and Volkman P. Changing core reduction strategies: a technological shift from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in the Southern Levant. In: Trinkhaus E. (Ed). The Mousterian Legacy: Human Biocultural Change in the Upper PleistoceneBritish Archaeological Research International Series 164 (1983) 13-134
47. McPherron S.P. A re-examination of the British Biface data. Lithics 16 (1995) 47-63
48. McPherron S.P. Ovate and pointed handaxe assemblages: two points make a line. Préhistoire Européenne 14 (1999) 9-32
49. McPherron S.P. Typological and technological variability in the bifaces from Tabun Cave, Israel. In: Soressi M., and Dibble H. (Eds). From Prehistoric Bifaces to Human Behaviour: Multiple Approaches to the Study of Bifacial Technology (2003), University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, Philadelphia, PA 55-75
50. Morrow J. End scraper morphology and use-life: an approach for studying Paleoindian lithic technology and mobility. Lithic Technology 22 (1997) 70-85
51. Neeley M., and Barton C. A new approach to interpreting late Pleistocene microlithic industries in southwest Asia. Antiquity 68 (1994) 275-288
52. Rolland N., and Dibble H.L. A new synthesis of Middle Paleolithic assemblage variability. American Antiquity 55 (1990) 480-499
53. Shott M.J. How much is a scraper? Curation, use rates and the formation of scraper assemblages. Lithic Technology 20 (1995) 52-72
54. Shott M.J. Stage versus continuum in the debris assemblage from production of a fluted biface. Lithic Technology 21 (1996) 6-22
55. Shott M.J., and Ballenger J.A.M. Biface reduction and the measurement of Dalton curation: a Southeastern United States case study. American Antiquity 72 1 (2007) 153-175
56. Shott M.J., and Weedman K.J. Measuring reduction in stone tools: an ethnoarchaeological study of Gamo hidescrapers from Ethiopia. Journal of Archaeological Science 34 (2006) 1016-1035
57. Van Peer P. The Levallois Reduction Strategy. Monographs in World Archaeology No 13 (1992), Prehistory Press, Wisconsin
58. Villa P. Terra Amata and the Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Southern France (1983), University of California Press, Berkeley, CA