10 articles in this issue
Ella Assaf
This paper sheds light on the presence and significance of unusually small, colorful, unmodified, flint pebbles unearthed at Qesem Cave, a late Lower Paleolithic site in Israel. For over two million years, early humans were noticing, collecting and bringi... see more
Arlys Nicolás Batalla, Letícia Cristina Correa, Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo
Lithic blades are long and narrow flakes produced from prepared cores which form part of different technological complexes all around the world. In South America, the production and use of blades has been reported in different settings which include early... see more
Alice Leplongeon, A. Nigel Goring-Morris
At the end of the Pleistocene (25,000-15,000 BP), there is a shift to more arid conditions in the Negev and the Sinai corresponding to the Last Glacial Maximum. For the Nile Valley and the Levant, the lowering of the Mediterranean sea level, the expansion... see more
Yoni Parush, Richard Yerkes, Bar Efrati, Ran Barkai, Gopher Avi
This paper presents a new techno-typological analysis of a sample of small flakes that were produced through recycling from discarded blanks at the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age site of Ein-Zippori, Lower Galilee, Israel. This study shows that the s... see more
Christoph Purschwitz
The high-altitude site of Karmir Sar is located around 2850 m a.s.l. on the southern slopes of Mt. Aragats (Armenia). Numerous stone structures (including vishaps, cromlechs, stone enclosures) are found all over the 40 ha-sized meadow, out of which three ... see more
Richard W. Yerkes, Yoni Parush, Avi Gopher, Professor, Ran Barkai, Professor
A microwear analysis of recycled lithic artefacts from late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah and Early Bronze Age layers at Ein-Zippori, Israel included cores-on-flakes (COFs) which are discarded blanks made into cores, and the flakes detached from them. COFs... see more
Justin Allen Holcomb, Curtis Runnels, Duncan Howitt-Marshall, Evangelos Sachperoglou
Despite Greece’s key geographic position between southeast Europe and southwest Asia, and its potential for documenting hominin dispersals, Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites are rare. This suggests the need for research to identify deposits that may con... see more
Linda Kiers
The practice of lithic heat treatment creates a combination of initial dull flake scars and subsequent smooth flake scars when the implement is finished after heating. Experiments were done to test the susceptibility of dull and smooth flake scars to etch... see more
Matthew Swieton
Taphonomic experiments in lithic technology have been used to understand many facets of the archaeological record including site-formation processes, artifact displacement, and wear damage. The North American grooved-axe - an artifact type of which little... see more
Antonio Pérez Balarezo
El origen técnico de los objetos líticos, éste es el tema del libro de Eric Boëda: ¿de dónde vienen y hacia dónde van? (p. 224). Un cuchillo ya no es ni su función ni el gesto que lo pone en acción; un cuchillo es justamente eso que no se ve: estructura. ... see more