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Toward a Theory of the Point

Groucutt, Huw S

Culture History and Convergent Evolution, 2020, p.245-259 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

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  • Título:
    Toward a Theory of the Point
  • Autor: Groucutt, Huw S
  • Assuntos: Archaeological theory ; Function ; Paleobiology ; Phylogeny ; Reduction
  • É parte de: Culture History and Convergent Evolution, 2020, p.245-259
  • Descrição: Points were the tips of prehistoric weapons like dartsDarts and arrowsArrows. Bifacially chipped stone points all have sharp tips but vary greatly in the size and form of the bases that secured them to the shafts or foreshafts of larger composite tools. Especially in the Americas prehistoric stone points are superabundant, their near-endless forms most beautiful and wonderful. Archaeologists exploit this diversity to order past time, adapting prehistoric tools as chronometric ones. Traditional analysis emphasized type definition among the variation in points, then toolstone acquisition, functionFunction and use-wearUsewear (use-wear), distinctions between dartsDarts and arrowsArrows, and pattern and degree of resharpening. Yet we still treat points and their types as tools that define segments of past time, and merely describe historical changes from one type to another. We also should treat types as subjects of analysis, prompting questions not ordinarily asked. How and where on points do history and timeless functionFunction register, and do they compete? How are valid types identified and distinguished? When and why do types originate and end, and how long does either take? What explains the duration and relative popularity of types, and the number present over the duration of a period? How do new types diversify from existing ones? How are historical continuity or discontinuity identified in point sequences? For their prehistoric users points were tools, trivially. For archaeologists point types are tools, trivially. But point types also are subjects, nontrivially, for and about whom we must develop the theory that can explain their origin, development, and ultimate fate.
  • Títulos relacionados: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
  • Editor: Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Idioma: Inglês
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