Across Forests and Savannas: Later Stone Age Assemblages from Ituri and Semliki, Democratic Republic of Congo
Across Forests and Savannas: Later Stone Age Assemblages from Ituri and Semliki, Democratic Republic of Congo
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穿越森林和稀树草原：来自刚果民主共和国伊图里和塞姆利基的晚期石器时代建筑群
DOI：
10.1086/jar.57.2.3631567
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
A. Brooks
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作者：
J. Mercader;A. Brooks
本文从刚果民主共和国东北部的热带雨林和林地稀树草原的几个地点描述了石器时代晚期的石英工业，重点介绍了各种减少策略，包括简单的破坏、双极冲击、盘状向心冲击、模式4和模式5、鹅卵石工具、缺陷传播和正式工具。对森林和林地-稀树草原遗址的比较确定了它们之间随着时间推移的强烈相似性，确定了在原材料选择和总体减少战略方面的刻意文化选择，为非洲热带地区晚石器时代的早期开始提供了进一步的证据，并表明在热带雨林定居不需要生态上独特或高度专业化的采掘技术。
This article characterizes Later Stone Age quartz industries from several sites in the rainforests and woodland-savanna mosaics of the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with an emphasis on various reduction strategies that include simple debitage, bipolar percussion, discoidal centripetal percussion, Modes 4 and 5, pebble tools, flaw propagation, and formal tools. Comparisons between forest and woodland-savanna sites establish strong similarities among them over time, determine deliberate cultural choices as to raw material selection and overall reduction strategies, provide further evidence for an early inception of the Later Stone Age across tropical Africa, and show that ecologically distinct or highly specialized extractive technologies were not required to settle rainforests.