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Lithic raw data for Sheppard's (1987) thesis on the Capsian
<div> <div> <div> <p>This is a collection of six lithic raw data spreadsheets created in the course of Peter Sheppard’s doctoral project on the prehistoric tradition of Northwest Africa known as the Capsian. Sheppard’s project investigated technological and stylistic variation in Capsian lithics. The spreadsheets provided here contain about 507,000 observations collected on some 20,100 artefacts (blanks, cores, burins, backed bladelets, and geometric microliths) from 16 sites. We recovered these data uncorrupted, byte-for-byte from a 40-year-old tape. In the provided PDF document, we restate with additional clarifications the data definitions from Sheppard (1987). We also detail the steps we took to transform the files found on the tape into usable data spreadsheets.</p> </div> </div> </div>
For our world without sound. The opportunistic debitage in the Italian context: a methodological evaluation of the lithic assemblages of Pirro Nord, Cà Belvedere di Montepoggiolo, Ciota Ciara cave and Riparo Tagliente.
<p>Raw data concerning the technological analysis of both the experimentation and archaeological collections.</p>
Research compendium for 'Refitting the Context: A Reconsideration of Cultural Change among Early Homo sapiens at Fumane Cave through Blade Break Connections, Spatial Taphonomy, and Lithic Technology'
<div> <h3>Compendium DOI:</h3> <p><a href="../doi/10.5281/zenodo.10965413">https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10965413</a> </p> </div> <p>The content available at the above provided URL will reproduce the results as documented in the publication. Instead, the files hosted at <a href="https://github.com/ArmandoFalcucci/Refitting-The-Context">https://github.com/ArmandoFalcucci/Refitting-The-Context</a> represent the developmental versions and might have undergone modifications since the paper's publication.</p> <div> <h3>Maintainer of this repository:</h3> </div> <p>Armando Falcucci (<a href="mailto:armando.falcucci@uni-tuebingen.de">armando.falcucci@uni-tuebingen.de</a>)</p> <div> <h3>Published paper:</h3> </div> <p>Armando Falcucci, Domenico Giusti, Filippo Zangrossi, Matteo De Lorenzi, Letizia Ceregatti, Marco Peresani. Refitting the Context: Revisiting the Aurignacian sequence at Fumane Cave through blade fragment connections, spatial taphonomy, and lithic technology. <em>Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology</em> (2024). DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-024-00203-0" rel="nofollow">10.1007/s41982-024-00203-0</a></p> <div> <h3>Abstract:</h3> </div> <p>High-resolution stratigraphic frameworks are crucial for unraveling the biocultural processes behind the dispersals of Homo sapiens across Europe. Detailed technological studies of lithic assemblages retrieved from multi-stratified sequences allow archaeologists to precisely model the chrono-cultural dynamics of the early Upper Paleolithic. However, it is of paramount importance to verify the integrity of these assemblages before building explanatory models of cultural change. In this study, multiple lines of evidence suggest that the stratigraphic sequence of Fumane Cave in northeastern Italy experienced minor post-depositional reworking, establishing it as a pivotal site for exploring the earliest stages of the Aurignacian. By conducting a systematic search for break connections between blade fragments and applying spatial analysis techniques, we identified three well-preserved areas of the excavation containing assemblages suitable for renewed archaeological investigations. Subsequent technological analyses, incorporating attribute analysis, reduction intensity, and multivariate statistics, have allowed us to discern the spatial organization of the site during the formation of the Protoaurignacian palimpsest A2–A1. Moreover, diachronic comparisons between three successive stratigraphic units prompted us to reject the hypothesis of techno-cultural continuity of the Protoaurignacian in northeastern Italy after the onset of the Heinrich Event 4. Based on the variability of the lithic and osseous artifacts, the most recent assemblage analyzed, D3b alpha, is now ascribed to the Early Aurignacian, aligning the evidence from Fumane with the current understanding of the development of the Aurignacian across Europe. Overall, this study demonstrates the high effectiveness of the break connection method when combined with detailed spatial analysis and lithic technology, providing a methodological tool particularly amenable to be applied to sites excavated in the past with varying degrees of recording accuracy.</p> <div> <h3>Keywords:</h3> </div> <p>Protoaurignacian; Early Aurignacian; Lithics; Refittings; Assemblage integrity; Spatial analysis; Italy</p> <div> <h3>Overview of contents and how to reproduce:</h3> </div> <p>Within this repository, various folders house data (<code>data</code>), code (<code>script</code>), and output files (<code>output</code>) pertinent to the paper. The data folder encompasses the blank and core datasets from the Aurignacian of Fumane Cave and the dataset of the blade fragment connection study. To replicate the results, download the entire repository and employ <code>Refitting-The-Context.Rproj</code> and open the folder <code>script</code>. For ensuring reproducibility, the <code>renv</code> package (v. 1.0.3) was utilized, following the procedures detailed in its vignette. All analyses and visualizations in the paper were conducted using R 4.3.1 on Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045 (64-bit). As the necessary packages are available in the <code>renv</code> folder, they are not explicitly listed here.</p> <div> <h3>Licenses:</h3> </div> <p>Code: <strong>MIT</strong> <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" rel="nofollow">http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT</a>, copyright holder: Armando Falcucci (2024).</p> <p>Data and intellectual work: <strong>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</strong> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="nofollow">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>), copyright holder: the authors (2024).</p>
Data set for the lithic material excavated at the Liang Abu site (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)
<p>Three tables describing the lithic material excavated at the Liang Abu site (East Kalimantan, Indonesia):</p> <ul> <li>abu-lithic-class.csv: count by class by stratigraphic layer</li> <li>abu-lithic-spatial-distribution.csv: count by square and stratigraphic layer</li> <li>abu-lithic-flakes.csv: morphometric values of the flakes</li> </ul>
Lithic, faunal, and radiocarbon dating data from Bukhtarma Cave, East Kazakhstan
<p>Data associated with the paper "<span>A newly dated late Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological assemblage from Bukhtarma Cave in the southern Altai piedmont, East Kazakhstan," containing the zooarchaeological identification and analysis, the lithic analysis, and the radiocarbon dates obtained from the 14C dating lab of the Curt Engelhorn Zentrum für Archäometrie, Mannheim, Germany (co-author S. Lindauer). </span></p>
Sharpness metric results and Instron method script for 'Raw Material Sharpness and Lithic Patterns: An Analysis of Holocene Susitna River Basin, Central Alaska' MPhil dissertation
<p>Data for appendix B in 'Raw Material Sharpness and Lithic Patterns: An Analysis of Holocene Susitna River Basin, Central Alaska' MPhil dissertation. This data set Includes initial and dulled sharpness metric data from the Instron® experiment for each flake. It also includes the Instron® bluehill method program script.</p>
Simplified lithic database from B and Bb layers from La Cativera (Tarragona, Spain), Late Upper Paleolithic.
<p>Lithic analysis database from La Cativera (Late Upper Paleolithic site in El Catllar, Tarragona, Spain) including the following attributes: </p> <p>Category, Level, Raw_material, Length, Width, Thickness, Elong:Index, Thick:Index, Area, Talon_type, Talon_length, Talon_width, Area, Cortex, Patina, Burned, Ocre, Retouched, Laplace_type, Reduction_intensity</p> <p>In one way or another, this dataset has been used in the following works:</p> <p>- Morales, J. I. (2010). La Cativera (Tarragona): la tecnología lítica de los últimos cazadores - recolectores en el Noreste de la Península Ibérica. Tarragona, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. DEA: 218.</p> <p> - Morales, J. I., et al. (2013). "Los niveles B y Bb de La Cativera (El Catllar, Tarragona). Procesos técnicos y culturales durante el Holoceno inicial en el noreste de la Península Ibérica." Trabajos de Prehistoria 70(1): 54-75.</p> <p>- Morales, J. I., et al. (2015). "Measuring Retouch Intensity in Lithic Tools: A New Proposal Using 3D Scan Data." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22(2): 543-558.</p> <p>- Morales, J. I., et al. (2015). "The evolution and stability of stone tools: the effects of different mobility scenarios in tool reduction and shape features." Journal of Archaelogical Science: Reports 3: 295-305.</p> <p>- Morales, J. I. (2016). "Distribution patterns of stone-tool reduction: Establishing frames of reference to approximate occupational features and formation processes in Paleolithic societies." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 41: 231-245.</p> <p> </p>
Obsidian lithic core
ID no.: TAR-11/3430 Archaeological Museum in Kraków https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2137 Digitalisation: RDW MIC, Virtual Małopolska project Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
Bipolar lithic core
Raw scan of lithic core made in bipolar (splintering) technique. Artefact found out of context. Piece is made of so called "Pommeranian Flint" - raw material characteristic for northern part of eastern Pommerania in N Poland. Bipolar reduction was used in this region from Mesolithic period up till Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age. Model not in scale, real world size: 29 x 26 x 7 mm Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
Geochemical and physical characterization of lithic raw materials in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
<p>The invention and proliferation of stone tool technology in the Early Stone Age (ESA) marks a watershed in human evolution. Patterns of lithic procurement, manufacture, use, and discard have much to tell us about ESA hominin cognition and land use. However, these issues cannot be fully explored outside the context of the physical attributes and spatio-temporal availability of the lithic raw materials themselves. The Olduvai Basin of northern Tanzania, which is home to both a wide variety of potential toolstones and a rich collection of ESA archaeological sites, provides an excellent opportunity to investigate the relationship between lithic technology and raw material characteristics. Here, we examine two attributes of the basin's igneous and metamorphic rocks: spatial location and fracture predictability. A total of 244 geological specimens were analyzed with non-destructive portable XRF (pXRF) to determine the geochemical distinctiveness of five primary and secondary sources, while 110 geological specimens were subjected to Schmidt rebound hardness tests to measure fracture predictability. Element concentrations derived via pXRF show significant differences between sources, and multivariate predictive models classify geological specimens with 75–80% accuracy. The predictive models identify Naibor Soit as the most likely source for a small sample of three lithic artifacts from Bed II, which supports the idea that this inselberg served as a source of toolstone during the early Pleistocene. Clear patterns in fracture predictability exist within and between both sources and rock types. Fine-grained volcanics show high rebound values (associated with high fracture predictability), while finer-grained metamorphics and coarsegrained gneisses show intermediate and low rebound values, respectively. Artifact data from Bed I and II suggest that fracture predictability played a role in raw material selection at some sites, but other attributes like durability, expediency, and nodule size and shape were more significant.</p>
Research compendium for 'Practical and technical aspects for the 3D scanning of lithic artefacts using micro-computed tomography techniques and laser light scanners for subsequent geometric morphometric analysis. Introducing the StyroStone protocol'
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p> <p>Here, we present a new method to scan a large number of lithic artefacts using three-dimensional (3D) scanning technology. Despite the rising use of high-resolution 3D surface scanners in archaeological sciences, no virtual studies have focused on the 3D digitization and analysis of small lithic implements such as bladelets, microblades, and microflakes. This is mostly due to difficulties in creating reliable 3D meshes of these artefacts resulting from several inherent features (i.e., size, translucency, and acute edge angles), which compromise the efficiency of structured light or laser scanners and photogrammetry. Our new protocol <em>StyroStone</em> addresses this problem by proposing a step-by-step procedure relying on the use of micro-computed tomographic technology, which is able to capture the 3D shape of small lithic implements in high detail. We tested a system that enables us to scan hundreds of artefacts together at once within a single scanning session lasting a few hours. As also bigger lithic artefacts (i.e., blades) are present in our sample, this protocol is complemented by a short guide on how to effectively scan such artefacts using a structured light scanner (Artec Space Spider). Furthermore, we estimate the accuracy of our scanning protocol using principal component analysis of 3D Procrustes shape coordinates on a sample of meshes of bladelets obtained with both micro-computed tomography and another scanning device (i.e., Artec Micro). A comprehensive review on the use of 3D geometric morphometrics in lithic analysis and other computer-based approaches is provided in the introductory chapter to show the advantages of improving 3D scanning protocols and increasing the digitization of our prehistoric human heritage.</p> <p><strong>Content List:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>S1. </strong>Step-by-step protocol entitled ‘StyroStone: A protocol for scanning and extracting three-dimensional meshes of stone artefacts using Micro-CT scanners’. Also available on protocols.io (dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bzbfp2jn);</li> <li><strong>S2. </strong>Dataset with all raw semilandmark coordinate data (in .xlsx format) used in the validation study;</li> <li><strong>S3. </strong>AGMT3D project. The file “Validation Protocol-MorphoProject.mat” can be used to open the project in the software AGMT3D;</li> <li><strong>S4. </strong>Dataset in .csv format of the principal component score data of the validation study;</li> <li><strong>S5.</strong> R script used to create Figure 2 using the R package ggplot2;</li> <li><strong>S6. </strong>3D models of the experimental bladelets obtained with the Micro-CT scanner used in the validation study. Both .ply and .wrl formats are provided;</li> <li><strong>S7. </strong>3D models of the experimental bladelets obtained with the Artec Micro scanner used in the validation study. Both .ply and .wrl formats are provided.</li> </ul>
Data and script for binomial GLMs in "Lithic Analysis of Andean Sedentary Societies, a Case Study from the Chachapoyas Region, Peru, and Potential Applications." (Pratt & Guengerich)
<p>This submission contains data and R-script that enable to reproduce the binomial generalized linear models in the paper “Lithic Analysis of Andean Sedentary Societies, a Case Study from the Chachapoyas Region, Peru, and Potential Applications” by Lauren V. Pratt & Anna Guengerich. Please cite the above paper if you use the files included in this Zenodo record in your work.</p>
Thermomagnetic and thermal demagnetization data from lithic clasts in pyroclastic density current deposits emplaced during the 1980 eruption at Mt. St. Helens
<p>This dataset includes thermomagnetic and thermal demagnetization data from lithic clasts collected within pyroclastic density current deposits of the 1980 eruption at Mt. St. Helens. All magnetic measurements were performed at the Paleomagnetic Laboratory of the University of Roma Tre.</p> <p>The susceptibility vs temperature curves (thermomagnetic_data.zip) and stepwise thermal demagnetization data (MSH*.zip, where * denotes the sampling site) can be both viewed with Notepad or similar programs, and analyzed via the Cureval and Remasoft software, respectively (downloadable at: https://www.agico.com).</p> <p>Thermomagnetic_data.zip contains the baseline FUR10_18, which should be subtracted to the susceptibility values of each sample.</p>
Drill Lithic
An attempt to compare the dimensions of a digital lithic and its physical counterpart. Measurement deviations were within 1-2 mm. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
Test Lithic 20200320 Non-focus stacked, Scaled
Test lithic, 2.75cm long, personal collection of author, non-focus stacked. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
Bifaz lítico | Lithic biface.
Bifaz de obsideana, GUA10 terraza, Gran Guaiteca. Región de Aysén, Chile. Arqueología de Aysén (ISBN: 978-956-9832-02-4). Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
Lithic
Lithic. Fort Mose (1738-1763).Excavated by the 2021 field school. To learn more visit:https://fortmose.org/ Model by Emma Dietrich This model was made with RealityCapture software by Capturing Reality Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
Linear morphometric analysis data of lithic points from Lovedale, Free State, South Africa
<p>Linear morphometric analysis data of lithic points from the Middle Stone Age site of Lovedale and other Middle Stone Age localities in the Modder River basin, Free State, South Africa.</p>
Forager mobility and lithic discard probability similarly affect the distance of raw material discard from source - Supplemental Material
<p>The data, R code and Netlogo model used in "Forager mobility and lithic discard probability similarly affect the distance of raw material discard from source".</p>
Appendix 3: Dissertation - A Lithic Analysis of the Knapped Stone Assemblage from the Site of Sliddery Moor on the Isle of Arran
<p>Appendix 3 data set created for the interpretation of the site of Sliddery Moor on the Isle of Arran in conjunction with a Masters Dissertation submitted at the University of Glasgow.</p>
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