Mechanical characterization of raw material quality and its implication for Early Upper Palaeolithic Moravia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081723%3A_____%2F16%3A00472739" target="_blank" >RIV/68081723:_____/16:00472739 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/16:33160935

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.08.042" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.08.042</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.08.042" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quaint.2016.08.042</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mechanical characterization of raw material quality and its implication for Early Upper Palaeolithic Moravia

Original language description

Raw material mechanical tests were conducted to answer the question whether differences in raw material procurement among Early Upper Palaeolithic populations in Moravia (Czech Republic) may have been driven by different mechanical properties of those materials. Characterization of mechanical properties of erratic flints and Krumlovsky les I type chert show that the relatively finer-grained erratic flints, preferred by local Aurignacian populations, are more easily and probably also predictably knapped at higher speeds, such as reached with soft (antler, wood) percussors, whereas cherts of Krumlovsky les I type, exploited by both Szeletian and Aurignacian populations, are more resistant to fracture propagation. This implies the suitability of the former material for fine blade and bladelet production, and of the latter to projectile (e.g. Szeletian leaf points) manufacture, and possibly explains the export of leaf points from Szeletian areas (the Krumlov Forest) to Bohunician and Aurignacian sites within Moravia. Exploitation of erratic flints was easier as regards Aurignacian, and probably entire Upper Palaeolithic knapping technology. Certain tasks, however, were better met with other raw materials, thus reflecting the relativity of chipped stone raw material quality perception in the Palaeolithic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

JH - Ceramics, fire-proof materials and glass

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/ED1.1.00%2F02.0068" target="_blank" >ED1.1.00/02.0068: Central european institute of technology</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Quaternary International

ISSN

1040-6182

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

425

Issue of the periodical within the volume

DEC

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

425-436

UT code for WoS article

000390534700029

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84994762030