The Role of Lithic Raw Material Quality in the Use of the Formalized Strategies of Flint Knapping in the North-East Asian Paleolithic Age
A.I Krivoshapkin, P.D Brantingham, K.A. Kolobova
Keywords: Paleolithic age, stone flaking technologies, North-East Asia, stone raw material
Pages: 3-6
Abstract
The article is written on the data received from stratified Paleolithic cave site Tsagaan Agui (Mongolia). Studying the lithic artifacts from this site testifies that Late Pleistocene hominids in certain areas of Northeast Asia used sophisticated and elaborated technologies of preparing formalized cores though the quality of the available raw materials was poor. Thus, the technological innovations in stone knapping, noted at Tsagaan Agui, show, that the poor quality of raw material in itself cannot explain the almost complete absence of formalized core technologies in East Asia.
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