Technical systems in the Atlantic European seashores: a cross-regional perspective on the stone knapped tools through use-wear analysis
Author(s): Jorge Calvo Gómez
Year: 2025
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This is an abstract from the "<html>Twenty Thousand Leagues (and Years!) under the Sea:<i> </i>Exploring the Place of Seashores in Prehistoric Socio-economic Systems</html>" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The occupation and exploitation of the coastal environments has been long time discussed by the archaeologists as a process in which the technology would have played a major role. While many early Holocene contexts along the Atlantic European seashores have delivered data related to the exploitation of marine resources, the functioning of the technological system remains rather poorly understood. These Mesolithic traditions in stone tool knapping are known in large geographical areas, both in inland and along Atlantic seashores. Indeed, the use of tools might reflect technical traditions specific to living a coastal way of life, probably connected to the exploitation of the marine resources. However, very few functional analyses have been carried out to date. The ongoing study presented here seeks to deepen the characterisation of the technical system of coastal populations through the functional study of the knapped tools from two European coastal areas: from the seashores of Southeast Norway and the Bay of Biscay. Analyses of use-wears in the stone knapped tools will bring a unique analytical frame to compare the technical traditions in both regions. The objective is to address the question of a potential specificity of techniques in the coastal sphere of Mesolithic hunter-gatherer groups.
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Technical systems in the Atlantic European seashores: a cross-regional perspective on the stone knapped tools through use-wear analysis. Jorge Calvo Gómez. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 509209)
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Abstract Id(s): 50450