Dissertation Research: Blade Production in the Early Levantine Mousterian

Marks/Monigal 在 Anthony Marks 博士的指导下，Katherine Monigal 女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她将研究从以色列莫斯特遗址出土并保存在美国和以色列博物馆中的石器材料收藏。这些石器都归属于一个名为“Tabun-D”的考古行业；其历史均超过 40,000 年，跨度可能长达 200,000 年。这些地点本身位于许多环境区域。莫尼加尔女士将描述和测量所选作品的大量属性，并利用这些数据重建用于制造石器的技术。 考古学家传统上关注的是生产的最终产品，而不是达到这一目的的过程。通过收集到的数据，莫尼加尔女士将比较不同时间和环境分区的 Tabun-D 遗址，尝试确定技术数据是否支持将这些遗址纳入单一文化​​传统，并尝试解释可能观察到的差异的原因。 根据欧洲的工作，考古学家认为某些石器类型（例如刀片）的生产与解剖学上的现代人类密切相关。在世界这个地区，叶片生产工业的出现可以追溯到大约 4 万年前。然而，正如莫尼加尔女士和其他人指出的那样，叶片在近东遗址中出现的时间要早​​得多，并且许多组合都支持这一结论。 利用这一单一特征，考古学家将这些事件归入“Tabun-D”标题下。然而，目前还不清楚这个名称在社会方面意味着什么，以及该行业的制造者是否属于同一群体或传统。在此之前，不可能询问这些数据是否与解剖学上现代人类的出现等问题相关。通过对工艺流程的研究，Mo nigal女士将能够以独到的方式解答这个问题。 这项研究很重要，原因有几个。它将产生许多考古学家感兴趣的数据。它将提供对现代人类出现的深入了解，并有助于培养一位有前途的年轻科学家。

Marks/Monigal Under the direction of Dr. Anthony Marks, Ms. Katherine Monigal will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will study collections of lithic materials which have been excavated from Mousterian sites in Israel and are stored in museums in both the United States and Israel. The lithics are all attributable to an archaeological industry termed "Tabun-D"; are all older than 40,000 years and may span a period of up to 200,000 years. The sites themselves are located in a number of environmental regions. Ms. Monigal will describe and measure a large number of attributes on selected pieces and with these data will reconstruct the technology used to make stone tools. Archaeologists traditionally focus on the final products which are produced and not on the process used to reach this end. With the data collected, Ms. Monigal will then compare Tabun-D sites across time and environmental subzone, attempt to determine whether technological data support the incorporation of these sites into a single cultural tradition and try to explain the causes of variation which may be observed. Based on work in Europe, archaeologists have argued that the production of certain stone tool types, such as blades, is tightly associated with anatomically modern humans. In this region of the world, the emergence of blade producing industries dates to about 40,000 years ago. However, as Ms. Monigal and others have noted, blades appear much earlier in sites in the Near East and a number of assemblages support this conclusion. Using this single characteristic, archaeologists have grouped these occurrences under the heading "Tabun-D." However it is very unclear what this designation means in social terms and whether the makers of this industry belonged to the same group or tradition. Until this is done, it is not possible to ask whether this data is relevant to questions such as the emergence of anatomically modern humans. Through her study of technological process, Ms. Mo nigal will be able to address this question in an original way. This research is important for several reasons. It will produce data of interest to many archaeologists. It will providfe insight into the emergence of modern humans and help to train a promising young scientist.