Lithic miniaturization in late Pleistocene southern Africa
Lithic miniaturization in late Pleistocene southern Africa
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南部非洲更新世晚期的石器小型化
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2016
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J. Pargeter
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摘要石质小型化是指系统地生产和使用由小芯制成的小工具。考古学家通常将微型工具箱的生产与小型修饰工具或“微石”联系起来。然而，人种学和考古数据表明，微型工具包也包括小的未经处理的薄片和刀片。因为它在更新世晚期激增，并与非洲的晚石器时代有关，考古学家将石器小型化与“现代人类行为”联系起来。然而，工具箱的小型化并不比骨尖制作、岩石艺术或雕刻的赭石更一致。石器小型化是我们更新世祖先采用的众多战略选择之一。本文报道了一个小型化的石片组合，其特点是从小的核心系统地生产小的未经修饰的薄片和刀片（
Abstract Lithic miniaturization refers to the systematic production and use of small tools made from small cores. Archaeologists typically associate the production of miniature toolkits with small retouched tools or ‘microliths’. Yet, ethnographic accounts and archaeological data show that miniature toolkits also comprised small unretouched flakes and bladelets. Because it proliferates during the Late Pleistocene and is associated with the Later Stone Age in Africa, archaeologists associate lithic miniaturization with ‘modern human behavior’. However, toolkit miniaturization is no more consistent a feature of Late Pleistocene assemblages than bone point production, rock art, or engraved ochre. Lithic miniaturization was one of many strategic options our Pleistocene ancestors employed. The paper reports a miniaturized lithic assemblage marked by the systematic production of small unretouched flakes and bladelets from small cores (