Abstract This paper presents preliminary results from a newly excavated open-air Later Stone Age site attributed to the Wilton Industry at Kathu Pan 6 in Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Basic data on lithics, fauna (including large ivory fragment), and ostrich eggshell beads) recovered during two seasons excavation (2016–2017) are presented this material is contextualized through compar...

Abstract Lacking well-dated fifth millennium Mesolithic evidence and based on a consensus that late Britain was isolated from the continent, discussion of Mesolithic–Neolithic transition has focused centuries around 4000 BC. This discourse over-simplified complex neolithisation processes. New, high-quality 460,000 lithics found at Bexhill, Sussex, SE England, helps to redress this. Here, microl...

Holliday (1) rejects age-depth models for the Younger Dryas boundary layer (YDB) in Kennett et al. (2), claiming that they are incorrect for several reasons, including age reversals, high age uncertainties, and use of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating. These same claims previously were presented in Meltzer et al. (3) and were discussed and refuted in Kennett et al. (2). These criti...

The detailed technological analysis of the youngest Howiesons Poort occupation in Sibudu Cave, layer Grey Rocky, has shown the importance of blade production (with different knapping methods involved), but also of flaking methods in coarse grained rock types. Moreover, new strategies of bifacial production and microlithism were important. Grey Rocky lithic technology shows a really versatile ex...

ABSTRACT The three authors research surface archaeological records dominated by low-density scatters and isolated artifacts, phenomena frequently encountered during cultural resource management (CRM) projects in areas of the United States Australia. We each began researching artifact for different reasons but converged on approaches that emphasize formation these forms deposits. Through a varie...

Abstract The disposal of cultural material at Çatalhöyük, Turkey (7100–5950 cal BCE) has created substantial midden deposits between buildings and within abandoned houses. These consist a variety materials, including environmental remains such as eggshell, mollusks, seeds, phytoliths, charcoal, fecal material, along with artefacts pottery, figurines, beads, lithics. Animal bone human also form ...

Bjerre 7 is a modest Late Bronze Age house in Thy, Denmark. Excellent preservation and full-recovery techniques provided comprehensive evidence of farm self-sufficiency, local exchange, amber collection for trade. Spatial analyses ceramics, lithics, plant macrofossils, identified distinctive activity areas at both ends the outside. Routines are discussed refuse disposal, ceramic use everyday ac...

Abstract This article offers some hypotheses to explain Later Stone Age lithic miniaturization: the systematic creation of small stone flakes on finest-grained materials. Fundamentally, this phenomenon appears represent prioritization tool sharpness over longevity, and a disposable mode using tools. Ethnographic evidence from Australasia, Andaman Islands, Africa is used suggest specific functio...