Material and Form Effects on Fishhook Durability: Experimental Assessment of Late Pleistocene Fishhooks

Author(s): Jacob Baldino

Year: 2025

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Although fish-hooks are a global technological phenomenon over 20,000 years old, bone and shell fish-hooks are under-researched experimentally. In this study we assess whether differences in material and form produce significant differences in hook durability. Consensus artifact models representing averages of Late Pleistocene fish-hook assemblages from the Tron Bon Lei Rock Shelter in Indonesia and the Jordan River Dureijat site in Northern Israel were used as the basis for artifact replication and testing.

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Material and Form Effects on Fishhook Durability: Experimental Assessment of Late Pleistocene Fishhooks. Jacob Baldino. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 510862)

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 52846