IUP Bohunician technology and refitting of its lithic elements

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

IUP Bohunician technology and refitting of its lithic elements

Original language description

The refitting of individual lithic elements back into its original chert nodule provides an invaluable contribution to technological studies. When successful, it allows a detailed reconstruction of the whole chaine operatoire and allows comparisons between individual sites. The refitting approach has been utilised in the Czech Republic by the author since the 1990s. Lithic material excavated from the IUP workshop sites located directly at the Stránská skála raw material outcrop have been successfully refitted into sequences with a high degree of completion. Fourteen nodules or blocks of raw material were almost completely reconstructed. Usually only one or several constituent pieces were missing (they were probably removed from the site). In addition, a series of less complete sequences allowed a detailed study of each step of the knapping process, contributing to the development of a theoretical model for Bohunician technology. In contrast to the workshop sites at the raw material outcrop, the completeness of refitted sequences tends to be significantly lower with increasing distance from the outcrop, in contexts of more intensive consumption of blanks or tools, and more intensive off-site transport. In order to express the differences between individual assemblages in a more standardized form, two indices were defined – an index of conjoinability (ic) and an index of size (in). At a broader scale, the refitted assemblages also allowed extra-regional comparisons, in our case between Bohunician technology from Stranska skala and Emiran technology from Boker Tachtit, levels 1-3. In addition, if we assume that knapping of every individual core represents a single chronological event, the spatial analysis of refitted artifacts then provides invaluable information about site formation processes, integrity of the artifact bearing horizon, as well as the internal organization of the site.

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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