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Lithic utility and risk: Examining mid to late Holocene stone points from Australia with a utility model
Journal of Archaeological Science ( IF 2.8 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-20 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105467
Tim Ryan Maloney 1 , Peter Hiscock 2
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Archaeological evidence of technology reflects myriad influences on past life, including economic contexts and mobility, which remain at the forefront of archaeological science. Given that forager groups needed to anticipate future technological needs and often had to transport tools, provisioning was necessary to enhance foraging success. Scheduling of production ensures suitable tools were available, maintained, and transported to where they were needed. This study investigates these fundamentals of interpreting past technological organisation via a critical examination of transport utility measures detected amongst bifacial points of late Holocene Australia. By focussing on one widely adopted model of these utility measures, we offer a new perspective on quantifying tool provisioning and interpreting forager mobility. These bifacial points were systematically geared to produce small and light specimens with low utility. Thus, foragers employed a strategy that sacrificed the benefits of extended utility in risky economic contexts. In return, they benefitted from having small points capable of being hafted to composite tools, enhanced the performance of those composite tools, and were light enough to permit multiple composite tools to be carried across the mid to late Holocene landscape of north Western Australia.



中文翻译:

石器效用与风险:用实用新型检验澳大利亚中晚期全新世石点

技术的考古证据反映了对过去生活的无数影响,包括经济背景和流动性,这仍然是考古科学的前沿。鉴于觅食者群体需要预测未来的技术需求,并且经常不得不运输工具,因此必须进行供应以提高觅食成功率。生产计划确保合适的工具可用、维护和运输到需要的地方。本研究通过对在澳大利亚全新世晚期的双面点中检测到的交通公用设施措施的批判性检查,调查了解释过去技术组织的这些基本原理。通过关注这些效用度量的一个广泛采用的模型,我们提供了量化工具供应和解释觅食者移动性的新视角。这些双面点被系统地用于生产实用性低的小而轻的样品。因此,觅食者采用了一种策略,在风险经济环境中牺牲了扩展效用的好处。作为回报,他们受益于能够连接到复合工具的小点,增强了这些复合工具的性能,并且足够轻,允许多个复合工具在西澳大利亚西北部的中晚期全新世景观中携带。

更新日期:2021-08-20
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