Bone tools from Taforalt Cave constitute the largest North African Later Stone Age (LSA) bone tool technocomplex recovered to-date. Use-trace analyses show that the small, pointed forms which dominate the assemblage show microtopographic patterning consistent with ethnographic bone tools used to make coiled basketry. The presence of coiled basketry likely scaffolded emergent cultural forms reflected in increased sedentism, resource intensification, and greater population density at Taforalt. This study explores the relationship between coiled basketry and archaeologically co-occurring technologies. Ethnographic analogies derived from Indigenous Californian groups provide a model for how resource-specific collection, processing, storage, and preparation requirements may have been supported technologically.

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北非旧石器时代盘绕筐生产的骨器代理证据

来自 Taforalt Cave 的骨器构成了北非晚期石器时代最大的工具（低密度脂蛋白) 骨骼工具技术复合体恢复到最新。使用痕迹分析表明，主导组合的小而尖的形状显示微地形图案与用于制作盘绕篮筐的民族志骨骼工具一致。盘绕篮筐的存在可能构成新兴文化形式的脚手架，这反映在 Taforalt 的久坐不动、资源集约化和更大的人口密度上。本研究探讨了盘绕篮筐与考古共生技术之间的关系。来自加利福尼亚土著群体的民族志类比提供了一个模型，说明如何在技术上支持特定资源的收集、处理、存储和准备要求。