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Lithic technology

Re-thinking the evolution of microblade technology in East Asia: Techno-functional understanding of the lithic assemblage from Shizitan 29 (Shanxi, China)

Yanhua Song, Stefano Grimaldi, Fabio Santaniello, David J. Cohen, Jinming Shi, Ofer Bar-Yosef

published 25 Feb 2019

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Late Pleistocene to early Holocene high-quality quartz crystal procurement from the Valiente quarry workshop site (32°S, Chile, South America)

César Méndez, Amalia Nuevo Delaunay, Roxana Seguel, Antonio Maldonado, Ismael Murillo, Douglas Jackson, Eugenio Aspillaga, Roberto Izaurieta, Víctor Méndez, Macarena Fernández

published 29 Nov 2018

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The Howiesons Poort lithic sequence of Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa

Katja Douze, Anne Delagnes, Sarah Wurz, Christopher Stuart Henshilwood

published 07 Nov 2018

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The MIS5 Pietersburg at ‘28’ Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Guillaume Porraz, Aurore Val, Chantal Tribolo, Norbert Mercier, Paloma de la Peña, Magnus M. Haaland, Marina Igreja, Christopher E. Miller, Viola C. Schmid

published 10 Oct 2018

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fiReproxies: A computational model providing insight into heat-affected archaeological lithic assemblages

Andrew C. Sorensen, Fulco Scherjon

published 16 May 2018

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Assessing the significance of Palaeolithic engraved cortexes. A case study from the Mousterian site of Kiik-Koba, Crimea

Ana Majkić, Francesco d’Errico, Vadim Stepanchuk

published 02 May 2018

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Discovery of circa 115,000-year-old bone retouchers at Lingjing, Henan, China

Luc Doyon, Zhanyang Li, Hao Li, Francesco d’Errico

published 12 Mar 2018

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Assessing site formation and assemblage integrity through stone tool refitting at Gruta da Oliveira (Almonda karst system, Torres Novas, Portugal): A Middle Paleolithic case study

Marianne Deschamps, João Zilhão

published 16 Feb 2018

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Shedding light on the Early Pleistocene of TD6 (Gran Dolina, Atapuerca, Spain): The technological sequence and occupational inferences

Marina Mosquera, Andreu Ollé, Xose Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez, Eudald Carbonell

published 25 Jan 2018

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Technological variability in the Late Palaeolithic lithic industries of the Egyptian Nile Valley: The case of the Silsilian and Afian industries

Alice Leplongeon

published 27 Dec 2017

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A critical assessment of the Protoaurignacian lithic technology at Fumane Cave and its implications for the definition of the earliest Aurignacian

Armando Falcucci, Nicholas J. Conard, Marco Peresani

published 07 Dec 2017

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The performance of tranchet blows at the Late Middle Paleolithic site of Grotte de la Verpillière I (Saône-et-Loire, France)

Jens Axel Frick, Klaus Herkert, Christian Thomas Hoyer, Harald Floss

published 30 Nov 2017

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Early Pleistocene archaeological occurrences at the Feiliang site, and the archaeology of human origins in the Nihewan Basin, North China

Shuwen Pei, Fei Xie, Chenglong Deng, Zhenxiu Jia, Xiaomin Wang, Ying Guan, Xiaoli Li, Dongdong Ma, Ignacio de la Torre

published 22 Nov 2017

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