Title :

Geometric morphometrics, shaping and technological aspects of leafpoints from two eponymous sites : Sajóbábony and Szeleta cave, Hungary.

Author(s) :

Lamotte, Agnes [Auteur correspondant]
Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 [HALMA]
Monnet, Claude [Auteur]
Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 [Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)]
Mester, Zsolt [Auteur]

Conference title :

Late neanderthals of the middle Danube basin in central european context : cutural vairability, interregional contacts, developmental capacities.

Conference organizers(s) :

EAA european archaeologist association

City :

Budapest

Country :

Hongrie

Start date of the conference :

2020-08-24

English keyword(s) :

geometric morphometrics, leafpoint, Paleolithic, Bábonyian, Szeletian

English abstract : [en]

Although commonly used to analyze hominin and animal bones, 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics has only recently been applied to understand the variability of Paleolithic stone tools. This method is well-known and has already ...
Show more >Although commonly used to analyze hominin and animal bones, 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics has only recently been applied to understand the variability of Paleolithic stone tools. This method is well-known and has already been applied to numerous sites yielding bifaces from the Acheulean in Africa and Eurasia and from the Mousterian. In addition, the method of the technological reading of knapped stone artefacts is frequently used for lithic analysis in Paleolithic research. In Central Europe, both analytical approaches were applied separately for studying bifacial leaf-shaped tools. Therefore, we propose to combine them for a more complex understanding of these tool types. In Hungary, leafpoints are characteristic tools of the Bábonyian and the Szeletian industries of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition respectively. According to the actual state of research, the Bábonyian is considered as the direct ancestor of the Szeletian in northern Hungary. Last year, a French-Hungarian research program has been launched for studying the Bábonyian problem. In this framework, we analyze leaf-shaped artifacts found on the eponymous sites: at Sajóbábony-Méhész-tető during our recent excavation and former field works by Á. Ringer and B. Adams, as well as in the Szeleta Cave during old excavations. We want to open a discussion concerning the evolution of leafpoint production by late Neanderthals of the region.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo Eco Paleo) - UMR 8198

Source :

Harvested from HAL