A Comparison of Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age Blades from South Africa
A Comparison of Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age Blades from South Africa
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南非中石器时代和晚期石器时代刀片的比较
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2008
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Grant W. G. Cochrane
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Grant W. G. Cochrane
摘要 中石器时代（MSA，距今约 250,000 至 25,000 年）和晚石器时代（LSA，距今约 25,000 至 2000 年）为非洲现代人类的进化提供了文化背景。 LSA 长期以来一直被认为是现代行为方式被广泛采用的时期。然而，在过去十年中，MSA 现代行为的证据显着增加，MSA 和 LSA 之间的一些文化差异已经变得模糊。 MSA 和 LSA 刀片技术之间的明显差异值得进一步研究。南非玫瑰小屋洞穴 (RCC) 遗址拥有悠久的文化序列，融合了多个 MSA 和 LSA 行业。对来自 RCC 的 Howiesons Poort（约 65,000 至 55,000 B.P.）和 Robberg（约 20,000 至 10,000 CAL B.P.）行业的刀片进行了受控比较。与 Howiesons Poort 生产相比，Robberg 叶片生产似乎涉及不同的理论方法和更高的技术精度，但它并没有带来更高水平的尺寸标准化。罗伯格刀片技术可谓较为先进，但其经济优势却存在问题。所涉及的技能可能是在特定的社会背景下培养的，尽管这些条件是否是环境压力下的罗伯格阶段或更广泛的 LSA 所特有的还有待确定。
Abstract The Middle Stone Age (MSA, ca. 250,000 to 25,000 B.P.) and the Later Stone Age (LSA, ca. 25,000 to 2000 B.P.) provide the cultural backdrops for the evolution of modern humans in Africa. The LSA has been long regarded as the period during which modern forms of behavior were widely adopted. Over the last decade evidence of modern behavior in the MSA has grown significantly, however, and some cultural distinctions between the MSA and LSA have become blurred. Perceived differences between MSA and LSA blade technologies warranted closer investigation. The South African site of Rose Cottage Cave (RCC) has a long cultural sequence incorporating several MSA and LSA industries. A controlled comparison of blades from the Howiesons Poort (ca. 65,000 to 55,000 B.P.) and Robberg (ca. 20,000 to 10,000 CAL B.P.) industries of RCC is presented. Robberg blade production appears to involve both a different theoretical approach and greater technical precision than Howiesons Poort production but it does not result in a greater level of dimensional standardization. Robberg blade technology could be described as more advanced, but its economic advantages are problematic. The skills involved may have been fostered within a particular social context, though it remains to be established whether these conditions were peculiar to the environmentally-stressed Robberg phase or to the broader LSA.