WITHDRAWN: Refitting stone-tools to understand site formation processes: the case of the Gravettian site of Terra do Manuel (Portugal)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Telmo Pereira ◽  
Henrique Matias ◽  
Francisco Almeida ◽  
Nuno Bicho
Keyword(s):  
Stone Tools ◽  
Site Formation ◽  
Site Formation Processes ◽  
Formation Processes

scholarly journals A Estação Paleolítica da Praia da Aguda (Arcozelo, Vila Nova de Gaia). Notícia preliminar

2010 ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Monteiro-Rodrigues ◽  
António González
Keyword(s):  
Stone Tools ◽  
Site Formation ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Stratigraphic Correlation ◽  
Site Formation Processes ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
De Se ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
First Time

A existência de materiais líticos paleolíticos no litoral do Porto e de Vila Nova de Gaia é conhecida, pelomenos, desde os finais do século XIX. A partir de 1987, trabalhos de prospecção neste último concelhoconduziram à descoberta do sítio do Cerro (freguesia da Madalena), escavado em 1989 e em 1992. Taisescavações permitiram a recolha de uma indústria técnica e tipologicamente conectável com o Acheulense.A estação paleolítica da Praia da Aguda (Arcozelo, Vila Nova de Gaia), agora apresentada, foi, porseu turno, identificada em 2004. Pouco depois da sua descoberta recolheram-se mais de uma centena deartefactos macrolíticos conectáveis com o Paleolítico Inferior (bifaces, machados de mão, núcleos, utensíliossobre lasca, etc.). Inicialmente, estes artefactos foram correlacionados com um depósito marinho,possivelmente de idade eemiana, existente na área dos achados. Porém, trabalhos de campo subsequentespermitiram constatar que essa correlação não é segura uma vez que os artefactos líticos detectados insitu surgem num depósito com caraterísticas diferentes das observadas na formação atribuída à últimainterglaciação. Na impossibilidade, até ao momento, de se proceder a uma caraterização sedimentológicado depósito onde ocorrem os artefactos e de se estabelecer qualquer correlação estratigráfica entre este ea praia fóssil do Eemiano, equacionam-se algumas hipóteses relativamente à génese do sítio arqueológicoe à sua cronologia relativa. The existence of Palaeolithic stone tools on the coast of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia has been knownfrom at least the late nineteenth century. In 1987, survey investigations in the latter municipality led tothe discovery of the site of Cerro (Madalena), excavated in 1989 and 1992. These excavations produceda collection of lithics that are techno-typologically related to the Acheulian. The Palaeolithic site of Praiada Aguda (Arcozelo), now published for the first time, was identified in 2004. Shortly after its discovery,more than one hundred macrolithic artefacts were found. The presence of hand-axes and cleavers suggestsa Lower Palaeolithic chronology. Initially, these artefacts were associated with a marine deposit,possibly of Eemian age, which was outcropping in the area of the site. However, subsequent fieldworkshowed that this correlation is not clear since the lithic artefacts that were found in situ were collectedfrom another deposit with features that differ from those observed in the Eemian deposit. So far it hasnot been possible to carry out a sedimentological characterisation of the deposit where the artefacts occur,nor to establish any stratigraphic correlation between this deposit and the Eemian fossil beach. Therefore,our main objective is to draft some hypotheses regarding the site formation processes and its relativechronology.

The Use of Chipped Lithic Material in the Contemporary Maya Highlands

1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 885-898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hayden ◽  
Margaret Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Resource Distribution ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Site Formation ◽  
Site Formation Processes ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Industrial Glass ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Learning Contexts

Ethnoarchaeological work in the Mayan Highlands has revealed that some individuals continue to make and use chipped stone implements for the manufacture of manos and metates. As a result site formation processes, effects of resource distribution, and stone tool characteristics can still be studied. Chipped tools of industrial glass are also made and used in the area, and provide useful models for some of the prehistoric uses of flaked stone tools, as well as information relating to their storage, curation, discard, and learning contexts.

A Prehistoric Ford near Rough Castle, Falkirk

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
JAMIE HAMILTON ◽  
CIARA CLARKE ◽  
ANDREW DUNWELL ◽  
RICHARD TIPPING
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Pollen Analysis ◽  
Site Formation ◽  
Site Formation Processes ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Small Stream ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
First Millennium

This report presents the results of the excavation of a stone ford laid across the base of a small stream valley near Rough Castle, Falkirk. It was discovered during an opencast coal mining project. Radiocarbon dates and pollen analysis of deposits overlying the ford combine to indicate a date for its construction no later than the early first millennium cal BC. Interpreting this evidence was not straightforward and the report raises significant issues about site formation processes and the interpretation of radiocarbon and pollen evidence. The importance of these issues extends beyond the rarely investigated features such as fords and deserve a larger place in the archaeological literature.

The Archaeological Record

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manjil Hazarika
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Site Formation ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Site Formation Processes ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Site Structure ◽  
Reserve Forest ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Ways Of Life

This chapter elaborates the data and results of the explorations conducted in the Garbhanga Reserve Forest. The area has been intensively surveyed for the location of potential archaeological sites and the collection of ethnographic data in order to draw direct historical analogies. An ‘area-approach’ study has been conducted in order to formulate a general model for archaeological site structure, locations, geomorphic situations, and site formation processes that can be used for archaeological study in the hilly landscape of Northeast India. Present-day agricultural implements have been analysed and compared with Neolithic implements in order to reconstruct ancient farming culture by way of undertaking systematic study of modern peasant ways of life in the study area. The ideological significance of stone artefacts as ‘thunderstone’ in Northeast India and among the Karbis has also been discussed.

Quantifying the threat to archaeological sites from the erosion of cultivated soil

Antiquity ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (309) ◽  
pp. 658-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Wilkinson ◽  
Andrew Tyler ◽  
Donald Davidson ◽  
Ian Grieve
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Site Formation ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Site Formation Processes ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nuclear Weapons Testing ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Soil Movements

Ploughing is probably the greatest agent of attrition to archaeological sites world-wide. In every country, every year, a bit more is shaved off buried strata and a bit more of the past becomes unreadable. On the other hand, people must eat and crops must be planted. How can the fields be best managed to get the best of both worlds? Perhaps the most pressing need for resource managers is to know how quickly a particular field is eroding: negotiation and protection is then possible. Up to now that has been difficult to measure.The new procedure presented here, which draws on the unexpected benefits of nuclear weapons testing, shows how variation in the concentration of the radioisotope 137Cs can be used to monitor soil movements over the last 40 years. The measurements allow a site's ‘life expectancy’ to be calculated, and there are some promising dividends for tracking site formation processes.

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