A Techno-morphological Analysis of Gravettian Stone Tools from Four Sites, Dordogne, France
Author(s): Jay Franklin; Jean-Philippe Rigaud; Lauren Christensen; Jay Franklin
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
We examine techno-morphological attributes of Gravettian tools from four sites in the Dordogne region of France to argue truncated elements were not recycled broken Gravette points. Truncated elements were the focus of a specific chaîne opératoire to produce tools for composite hunting technology.Our previous work at La Grotte Seize and La Ferrassie support this idea. We found the width of the average truncated element is more than one standard deviation greater than that of the average Gravette point. Cross-section morphology is also different. For this study, we bolster our sample sizes by including tools from Corbiac and Le Flageolet.
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A Techno-morphological Analysis of Gravettian Stone Tools from Four Sites, Dordogne, France. Jay Franklin, Jean-Philippe Rigaud, Lauren Christensen, Jay Franklin. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 450286)
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Geographic Keywords
Europe: Western Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -13.711; min lat: 35.747 ; max long: 8.965; max lat: 59.086 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 25818