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The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies

Soriano, Sylvain ; Villa, Paola ; Delagnes, Anne ; Degano, Ilaria ; Pollarolo, Luca ; Lucejko, Jeannette J ; Henshilwood, Christopher ; Wadley, Lyn Petraglia, Michael D.

PloS one, 2015-07, Vol.10 (7), p.e0131127-e0131127 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

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  • Título:
    The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies
  • Autor: Soriano, Sylvain ; Villa, Paola ; Delagnes, Anne ; Degano, Ilaria ; Pollarolo, Luca ; Lucejko, Jeannette J ; Henshilwood, Christopher ; Wadley, Lyn
  • Petraglia, Michael D.
  • Assuntos: Abandonment ; Animals ; Anthropology, Cultural ; Archaeology ; Archaeology and Prehistory ; Caves ; Cultural Evolution ; Cultural factors ; Cultural heritage ; Environmental studies ; Evolution ; Fossils ; Geography ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; Humans ; Lithic ; Museums ; Permits ; Rivers ; South Africa ; Stone Age ; Studies ; Technology ; Time Factors ; Tool Use Behavior
  • É parte de: PloS one, 2015-07, Vol.10 (7), p.e0131127-e0131127
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    PMCID: PMC4498762
    Conceived and designed the experiments: SS PV. Wrote the paper: CSH LW. Conceived and designed research: SS PV. Did lithic analysis: SS PV AD LP. Performed GC/MS analyses: ID JJL. Directed the excavation of materials studied in this paper, provided administrative support, and participated in drafitng the article: CSH LW.
    Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
  • Descrição: The classification of archaeological assemblages in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa in terms of diversity and temporal continuity has significant implications with respect to recent cultural evolutionary models which propose either gradual accumulation or discontinuous, episodic processes for the emergence and diffusion of cultural traits. We present the results of a systematic technological and typological analysis of the Still Bay assemblages from Sibudu and Blombos. A similar approach is used in the analysis of the Howiesons Poort (HP) assemblages from Sibudu seen in comparison with broadly contemporaneous assemblages from Rose Cottage and Klasies River Cave 1A. Using our own and published data from other sites we report on the diversity between stone artifact assemblages and discuss to what extent they can be grouped into homogeneous lithic sets. The gradual evolution of debitage techniques within the Howiesons Poort sequence with a progressive abandonment of the HP technological style argues against the saltational model for its disappearance while the technological differences between the Sibudu and Blombos Still Bay artifacts considerably weaken an interpretation of similarities between the assemblages and their grouping into the same cultural unit. Limited sampling of a fragmented record may explain why simple models of cultural evolution do not seem to apply to a complex reality.
  • Editor: United States: Public Library of Science
  • Idioma: Inglês
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