A Techno-morphological Analysis of Gravettian Stone Tools from La Grotte Seize and La Ferrassie, Dordogne, France
Author(s): Jay Franklin; Jean-Philippe Rigaud; Jan Simek; Lucinda Langston; Frédéric Surmely
Year: 2016
Summary
The Gravettian cultural sequence has become of greater interest to Paleolithic scholars now that the relationships of previous industries have been sorted out. Our focus here is on Gravettian truncated elements. Morpho-typology suggests that this tool type is a recycled, broken Gravette point. We suggest that truncated elements were deliberately produced tools used as different armatures than Gravette points based on techno-morphological differences. We suggest that truncated elements were part of a predetermined composite tool hunting technology. We examine this idea through a series of morphometric measurements and discriminant analysis.
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A Techno-morphological Analysis of Gravettian Stone Tools from La Grotte Seize and La Ferrassie, Dordogne, France. Jay Franklin, Jean-Philippe Rigaud, Jan Simek, Lucinda Langston, Frédéric Surmely. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 405047)
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Keywords
General
Paleolithic
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Stone Tools
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SW France
Geographic Keywords
Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -11.074; min lat: 37.44 ; max long: 50.098; max lat: 70.845 ;