Assemblage Analysis

2018 ◽  
pp. 143-191
Author(s):  
Rupendra Kumar Chattopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Stone Tools ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Assemblage Analysis

Abundant explored and excavated archaeological findings found from innumerable sites along the littoral, along with those presently in the collections of different museums or individuals, portray a definite picture of the coastal life. This chapter explores a meagre part of this repertoire of archaeological findings under the following sub-sections: structural remains, ceramics, bone tools, stone tools, beads, stuccos, stone sculptures, metal images, metal objects, terracotta crafts, coins, seals and sealings and other inscribed objects, ivory objects, wooden objects, glass objects, and miscellaneous objects. This chapter essentially acts as a corollary to the previous chapter.

Substitution of Stone Tools for Bone Tools at Makapansgat

Nature ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 196 (4852) ◽  
pp. 314-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAYMOND A. DART
Keyword(s):  
Stone Tools ◽  
Bone Tools

Broken Bones, Bone Expediency Tools, and Bone Pseudotools: Lessons from the Blast Zone around Mount St. Helens, Washington

1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Lee Lyman
Keyword(s):  
Stone Tools ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Broken Bones ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
Use Wear ◽  
Blast Zone ◽  
Mount St Helens ◽  
The Way

Criteria for recognizing technological and use-wear modifications have been used to identify “bone expediency tools” by archaeologists who analyze bone assemblages recovered from sites where butchering of animals took place. These criteria are here reviewed and then used to identify bone pseudotools in cervid bone assemblages completely formed by non-human processes and recovered from the blast zone around the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington. The procedures for identifying stone tools and bone tools share similar strengths and weaknesses that seem to originate with the logical criteria used for recognizing modifications to the objects under study. Less equivocal inferential identifications of bone objects as “tools” can be facilitated by turning to the problem of constructing testable hypotheses about the way patterns of use-wear modifications to bone tools can be expected to appear in the archaeological record.

scholarly journals Lingkungan Geologi Situs Hunian Gua Gede di Pulau Nusa Penida, Kabupaten Klungkung, Provinsi Bali

AMERTA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Dariusman Abdillah
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Geological Environment ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Karst Environment ◽  
Karst Caves ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Office ◽  
Habitation Site

Abstract. The Geological Environment Of The Habitation Site Of Gede Cave In Nusa Penida Island, Klungkung Regency, Bali Province. Gede Cave is one of the karst caves in the slopes of the hills of Banjar Pendem, Nusa Penida, Bali, with an environment that is suitable for a shelter. From results of research conducted by the Archaeological Research Office of Denpasar (Balai Arkeologi Denpasar), we learn that in the cave were discovered remains ofprehistoric settlements in forms of bone tools, stone tools, pottery, debris from mollusks (probably remains of food). Humans can survive in karst environment in this area during the prehistoric period because such area is supported by caves that are suitable for shelter, as well as the availability of natural resources. Both factors can be found at Gede Cave. Therefore it was used as a shelter in prehistoric period. What was the condition of Gede Cave and what were the environmental resources that support the life of prehistoric human community are the subject of this paper.Abstrak. Gua Gede adalah salah satu gua karst di lereng perbukitan Banjar Pendem, Nusa Penida dengan lingkungan yang memungkinkan sebagai tempat hunian. Dari hasil penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Balai Arkeologi Denpasar di gua ini ditemukan sisa-sisa pemukiman dari masa prasejarah berupa alat-alat dari tulang, alat batu, tembikar, dan sisa-sisa makanan dari moluska. Manusia dapat bertahan hidup di lingkungan karst pada masa prasejarah di daerah ini, didukung oleh kondisi gua yang memenuhi syarat sebagai tempat hunian dengan ketersediaan sumberdaya alam. Kedua faktor ini terpenuhi di Gua Gede sehingga menjadikannya sebagai tempat hunian di zaman prasejarah. Seperti apa kondisi Gua Gede dan sumberdaya lingkungan apa saja yang mendukung kehidupan manusia prasejarah didalamnya, menjadi pokok bahasan dalam tulisan ini.

scholarly journals Bone-related behaviours performed by captive chimpanzees during an excavating experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Motes Rodrigo ◽  
Travis R. Pickering ◽  
Claudio Tennie ◽  
R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Stone Tools ◽  
The Other ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Behavioural Responses ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Foraging Task

After stone tools, bone tools are the most abundant tool type in the hominin archaeological record. However, due to their poor preservation, they are relatively scarce, limiting our understanding of the behavioural processes that led to their production and use. Extant primates constitute a unique source of behavioural data to build and shape hypotheses about the potential uses that our hominin ancestors might have given to bone tools. In this study, we investigated the behavioural responses of two groups of captive chimpanzees (Ntotal=42) to detached and cleaned bones while participating in a foraging task aimed at eliciting excavating behavior. Each chimpanzee group was provided with bones of different characteristics and the two groups differed in their respective levels of experience with tool excavation (one group being mostly inexperienced while the other had ample experience in stick tool excavation). We found that several individuals from the inexperienced group used the provided bones as tools during the task. No individuals from the experienced group used bones as excavating tools. Instead, these chimpanzees performed other bone-related behaviours (not observed in the inexperienced group), such as hammering and tool-assisted marrow consumption. Given that previous experience in tool excavation did not predict the use of bones as tools in the excavating task, we hypothesize that the differences in behavior observed between the two chimpanzee groups were due to the characteristics of the bones they were provided with. Furthermore, our results suggest that object characteristics rather than material determine whether chimpanzees perceive an object as a suitable excavating tool.

scholarly journals SISA BUDAYA MANUSIA PURBA SITUS NGEBUNG (Artefact of Early Man in Ngebung Site)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Metta Adityas Permata Sari
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Rooted cultural habits passed down through the generations since the common ancestor to the present. Results of prehistoric human culture found within the site Ngebung Sangiran, composed of bone tools and stone tools. Both of these findings will be the subject matter discussed in this paper with the aim to rescue and add data as well as the latest information. In addition, this study also wanted to find out the similarities and differences between the characteristics of the research findings in 2013 to 2014. Based on the survey and excavation team Preservation Hall Ancient Man Site (BPSMP) Sangiran in 2013 and 2014, it is known that bone tools were found is a type of spatula and lancipan , while the stone tools consist of shale and shaved. Overall the study found as many as 2 pieces of bone tools and stone tools 63 pieces.ABSTRAKBudaya berakar dari kebiasaan yang diwariskan secara turun-temurun sejak nenek moyang hingga sekarang. Hasil budaya manusia prasejarah yang ditemukan di situs Ngebung dalam kawasan Sangiran, terdiri dari alat tulang dan alat batu. Kedua temuan tersebut akan menjadi pokok masalah yang dibahas dalam tulisan ini dengan tujuan untuk penyelamatan dan menambah data serta informasi terbaru. Selain itu penelitian ini juga ingin mengetahui persamaan serta perbedaan karakteristik temuan antara penelitian pada tahun 2013 dengan 2014. Berdasarkan survei dan ekskavasi tim Balai Pelestarian Situs Manusia Purba (BPSMP) Sangiran tahun 2013 dan 2014, diketahui bahwa alat tulang yang ditemukan merupakan tipe spatula dan lancipan, sedangkan alat batu terdiri dari serpih dan serut. Secara keseluruhan penelitian menemukan alat tulang sebanyak 2 buah dan alat batu 63 buah.

Somethin’ about Scandinavia: Danish Shorts on the Post-war International Scene

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
The Third ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Post War ◽  
Nordic Cooperation

Building on the picture of post-war Anglo-Danish documentary collaboration established in the previous chapter, this chapter examines three cases of international collaboration in which Dansk Kulturfilm and Ministeriernes Filmudvalg were involved in the late 1940s and 1950s. They Guide You Across (Ingolf Boisen, 1949) was commissioned to showcase Scandinavian cooperation in the realm of aviation (SAS) and was adopted by the newly-established United Nations Film Board. The complexities of this film’s production, funding and distribution are illustrative of the activities of the UN Film Board in its first years of operation. The second case study considers Alle mine Skibe (All My Ships, Theodor Christensen, 1951) as an example of a film commissioned and funded under the auspices of the Marshall Plan. This US initiative sponsored informational films across Europe, emphasising national solutions to post-war reconstruction. The third case study, Bent Barfod’s animated film Noget om Norden (Somethin’ about Scandinavia, 1956) explains Nordic cooperation for an international audience, but ironically exposed some gaps in inter-Nordic collaboration in the realm of film.

Capitalising upon Globalisation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Webber
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Development ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Gordon Brown ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
At Home

Having mapped out in the previous chapter, New Labour’s often contradictory and even ‘politically-convenient’ understanding of globalisation, chapter 3 offers analysis of three key areas of domestic policy that Gordon Brown would later transpose to the realm of international development: (i) macroeconomic policy, (ii) business, and (iii) welfare. Since, according to Brown at least, globalisation had resulted in a blurring of the previously distinct spheres of domestic and foreign policy, it made sense for those strategies and policy decisions designed for consumption at home to be transposed abroad. The focus of this chapter is the design of these three areas of domestic policy; the unmistakeable imprint of Brown in these areas and their place in building of New Labour’s political economy. Strikingly, Brown’s hand in these policies and the themes that underpinned them would again reappear in the international development policies explored in much greater detail later in the book.

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