Kot, Małgorzata
[Author]
;
Szymczak, Karol
[Contributor];
Łanczont, Maria
[Contributor];
Wydział "Artes Liberales". Uniwersytet Warszawski
[Contributor]
The Earliest Middle Palaeolithic Bifacial Leafpoints in Central and Southern Europe. Technological Approach ; Analiza technologiczne najstarszych środkowopaleolitycznych, bifacjalnych ostrzy liściowatych w Środkowej i Południowej Europie
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Title:
The Earliest Middle Palaeolithic Bifacial Leafpoints in Central and Southern Europe. Technological Approach ; Analiza technologiczne najstarszych środkowopaleolitycznych, bifacjalnych ostrzy liściowatych w Środkowej i Południowej Europie
Contributor:
Kot, Małgorzata
[Author]
Published:
Lectorium - Open Repository of Historical Sciences, 2013-05-13
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Dissertation created within the framework of the Inter-University Programme of Interdisciplinary PhD Studies at the »Artes Liberales« Academy. ; Middle Palaeolithic leafpoint industries are widely spread in Central Europe. Leafpoints became a kind of “index fossils” for MP/UP transitional industries. For last 50 years many researches were done on the oldest leafpoint horizons (MIS 5d-3). As a result few dozens of sites can be recently ascribed as early leafpoint industries spread all over the Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. The aim of the project was to check if there are any significant differences between leafpoints and between leafpoints and other bifacial tools among all earliest leafpoint collections. In total 41 collections of leafpoints from 8 countries were analyzed by a scar pattern analysis in order to reconstruct the chaîne opératoire. The results show that the analysed artifacts are not coherent from the perspective of the technology. On most of tools under the scrutiny one may find a few separate techno-functional units which were treated in different ways in the course of knapping and correcting. The tools have a long straight cutting edge and a long straight distal posterior edge converging with the cutting edge at the tip. One can see that removals performed from different directions had different purposes whilst the cutting edge was only of practical use and any further corrections were aimed at its repair. The edge of the distal posterior part can be perceived as being of technical use. The objective of its repair was to thin the cutting edge near the tip, correct its thickness and the tip itself. Although both edges converge symmetrically at the tip they had a totally different function in a tool. Throughout the course of repairs the knappers aimed at keeping a long, straight and sharp cutting edge. The entire process of production and rejuvenation was subjected to this aim. It is especially visible in all the parts where some elements of the tools were resigned from on behalf of others. ...