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Quantifying Traces of Tool Use: A Novel Morphometric Analysis of Damage Patterns on Percussive Tools
Percussive technology continues to play an increasingly important role in understanding the evolution of tool use. Comparing the archaeological record with extractive foraging behaviors in nonhuman primates has focused on percussive implements as a key to investigating the origins of lithic technolo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25415303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113856 |
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author | Caruana, Matthew V. Carvalho, Susana Braun, David R. Presnyakova, Darya Haslam, Michael Archer, Will Bobe, Rene Harris, John W. K. |
author_facet | Caruana, Matthew V. Carvalho, Susana Braun, David R. Presnyakova, Darya Haslam, Michael Archer, Will Bobe, Rene Harris, John W. K. |
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description | Percussive technology continues to play an increasingly important role in understanding the evolution of tool use. Comparing the archaeological record with extractive foraging behaviors in nonhuman primates has focused on percussive implements as a key to investigating the origins of lithic technology. Despite this, archaeological approaches towards percussive tools have been obscured by a lack of standardized methodologies. Central to this issue have been the use of qualitative, non-diagnostic techniques to identify percussive tools from archaeological contexts. Here we describe a new morphometric method for distinguishing anthropogenically-generated damage patterns on percussive tools from naturally damaged river cobbles. We employ a geomatic approach through the use of three-dimensional scanning and geographical information systems software to statistically quantify the identification process in percussive technology research. This will strengthen current technological analyses of percussive tools in archaeological frameworks and open new avenues for translating behavioral inferences of early hominins from percussive damage patterns. |
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spelling | pubmed-42406652014-11-26 Quantifying Traces of Tool Use: A Novel Morphometric Analysis of Damage Patterns on Percussive Tools Caruana, Matthew V. Carvalho, Susana Braun, David R. Presnyakova, Darya Haslam, Michael Archer, Will Bobe, Rene Harris, John W. K. PLoS One Research Article Percussive technology continues to play an increasingly important role in understanding the evolution of tool use. Comparing the archaeological record with extractive foraging behaviors in nonhuman primates has focused on percussive implements as a key to investigating the origins of lithic technology. Despite this, archaeological approaches towards percussive tools have been obscured by a lack of standardized methodologies. Central to this issue have been the use of qualitative, non-diagnostic techniques to identify percussive tools from archaeological contexts. Here we describe a new morphometric method for distinguishing anthropogenically-generated damage patterns on percussive tools from naturally damaged river cobbles. We employ a geomatic approach through the use of three-dimensional scanning and geographical information systems software to statistically quantify the identification process in percussive technology research. This will strengthen current technological analyses of percussive tools in archaeological frameworks and open new avenues for translating behavioral inferences of early hominins from percussive damage patterns. Public Library of Science 2014-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4240665/ /pubmed/25415303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113856 Text en © 2014 Caruana et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Caruana, Matthew V. Carvalho, Susana Braun, David R. Presnyakova, Darya Haslam, Michael Archer, Will Bobe, Rene Harris, John W. K. Quantifying Traces of Tool Use: A Novel Morphometric Analysis of Damage Patterns on Percussive Tools |
title | Quantifying Traces of Tool Use: A Novel Morphometric Analysis of Damage Patterns on Percussive Tools |
title_full | Quantifying Traces of Tool Use: A Novel Morphometric Analysis of Damage Patterns on Percussive Tools |
title_fullStr | Quantifying Traces of Tool Use: A Novel Morphometric Analysis of Damage Patterns on Percussive Tools |
title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying Traces of Tool Use: A Novel Morphometric Analysis of Damage Patterns on Percussive Tools |
title_short | Quantifying Traces of Tool Use: A Novel Morphometric Analysis of Damage Patterns on Percussive Tools |
title_sort | quantifying traces of tool use: a novel morphometric analysis of damage patterns on percussive tools |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25415303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113856 |
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