Analyses of chipped stone industries in the Near East in the Bronze and Iron Ages in the past two decades have addressed major issues of evolving economic specialization, technological and functional evolution, and geographic variability.

2021年12月1日 · The only published use-wear analysis of ground stone tools of the Bronze Age was the functional study of stone tools of the Erlitou Period (1900–1500 BCE) at the Huizui site in the Yellow River Region, including four knives, three sickles, and one spearhead (Liu et al. 2018). The results indicate that these tools were used to harvest cereals ...

2013年11月1日 · Analyses of chipped stone industries in the Near East in the Bronze and Iron Ages in the past two decades have addressed major issues of evolving economic specialization, technological and ...

2010年6月1日 · Assessing harvesting intensity from archaeological sickles contributes towards our understanding the importance of stone sickles to everyday life in the early Neolithic. This also allows us to consider the role of one integrated aspect of technology in the transition from foraging to farming economies.

Analyses of chipped stone industries in the Near East in the Bronze and Iron Ages in the past two decades have addressed major issues of evolving economic specialization, technological and ...

5 天之前 · The first bone tools from Kromdraai and stone tools from Drimolen, and the place of bone tools in the South African Earlier Stone Age. Quat. Int. 495 , 87–101 (2018).

5 天之前 · The Stone Age was the original Industrial Revolution, a period that began possibly as early as 3 million years ago during which our human ancestors and their close cousins learned to sculpt a wide range of tools from rocks. ... Homo erectus, was producing stone choppers and hand axes in a distinctive style known as the Acheulean industry. In ...

2008年1月1日 · The lithic industry, classified as Sultanian, is characterized by the presence of Khiam points, sickle blades, and tranchet (Tahunian) axes, and is similar to that uncovered in Jericho.

5 天之前 · In 2015, Dr. de la Torre and his colleagues began digging a trench in a gully known as the T69 Complex, where they had previously found Acheulean stone tools on the ground.

5 天之前 · The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus ... Homo erectus used a tactic similar to flinting stone.