Straight to the point : Upper paleolithic Ahmarian lithic technology in the levant
Straight to the point : Upper paleolithic Ahmarian lithic technology in the levant
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开门见山：黎凡特旧石器时代晚期艾玛利亚石器技术
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2006
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A. Davidzon
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N. Goring;A. Davidzon;N. Goring;A. Davidzon
最近对来自黎凡特南部干旱边缘的旧石器时代早期阿玛里亚组合进行的几项改装研究使人们能够对其独特的技术进行系统研究。在此提出的Ahmarian chaine operatoire的重建是基于内盖夫低地西部Nahal Nizzana XIII的组合。该方法似乎涉及使用具有平坦锐角平台的窄N形前“划船”芯预制件。knapping的主要焦点是为el-Wad点（和穿孔器）提供一系列预定的、独特的尖刀片/刀片坯料。这些坯料是使用平台研磨和软石研磨机生产的。用于其他工具类别的二次坯件大多来自剥壳和设置型芯预成型件，或者在型芯维护期间通过芯片获得，两者通常都具有较硬的锤石。优雅的综合方法，以knapping的概念，在纳哈尔Nizzana十三进一步证明了与该地区的其他Ahmarian组合的比较。似乎更大的变化是显示在地中海地区的Ahmarian相关的组合，其中一个反对平台技术补充了独特的“N-fronted”的方法上面概述。与长期存在和广泛流传的轶事说法相反，几乎没有证据表明在阿赫马尔语中系统地使用了打孔技术;相反，根据敲击阶段，敲击模式结合了两种互补的石锤类型。最后，可能的先例Ahmarian检查。看来可能是一个记录不佳的中间阶段可能分离中间（MP/UP）Boker Tachtit样组合Ahmarian。
Several recent refitting studies of Early Upper Paleolithic Ahmarian assemblages from the arid margins of the southern Levant have enabled the systematic investigation of their distinctive technology. The reconstruction of the Ahmarian chaine operatoire presented herewith is based on the assemblage from Nahal Nizzana XIII in the western Negev lowlands. It seems that the method involves the use of a narrow N-fronted "row boat" core preform with a plain, acute angled platform. The primary focus of knapping was the provision of series of predetermined, distinctive pointed blade/let blanks for el-Wad points (and perforators). These blanks were produced using platform abrasion and a soft stone percussor. Secondary blanks for other tool classes mostly derive either from decortication and setting up the core preform or during core maintenance by means of core tablets, both usually with a harder hammerstone. The elegance of this integrated method to the knapping concept used at Nahal Nizzana XIII is further demonstrated by comparisons with other Ahmarian assemblages in the region. Seemingly greater variability is displayed by Ahmarian-related assemblages in the Mediterranean zone, where an opposed platform technology supplements the distinctive "N-fronted" method outlined above. Contrary to longstanding and widespread anecdotal claims, there is little evidence for systematic use of the punch technique in the Ahmarian; rather the knapping mode combined two complementary stone hammer types according to the knapping stages. Finally, possible antecedents for the Ahmarian are examined. It seems likely that a poorly documented intermediate phase probably separates Intermediate (MP/UP) Boker Tachtit-like assemblages from the Ahmarian.