Radu Iovita
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 632189 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Radu Iovita |
| NOMBRES | Radu |
| APELLIDO | Iovita |
| FIRMA | IOVITA R |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9531-1159 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 803 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Use-Wear Analysis Shows Changing Handaxe Grip and Use Across Time at la Noira (France)
Handaxes — sub-oval bifacially flaked stone tools — were produced for over a million years across Africa, Europe, and Asia during the Lower Palaeolithic. Their relatively uniform shape across varied environments and over a million years raises the question of whether or not their function and purposes were also uniform. Previous studies suggested that handaxe shape might be related to patterns in use and maintenance, but the level of analysis may…
The Impact of Cooperation Under Climate Constraints
Modern humans dispersed throughout the entire world during the Pleistocene, completing an important part of our evolutionary history. Central Asia, one of the most challenging territories to be colonized, is characterized by continental climate and stark geographic contrasts and therefore offers an ideal context for testing hypotheses about the role of human behavior in dispersals under adverse conditions. Here, we introduce an evolutionary theor…
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Characteristics of lithic artifact weathering at the Semizbugu surface site complex in semi-arid Central Kazakhstan
Новые стратифицированные стоянки каменного века Тикенекти-2 и Ынтымак в предгорьях Иле Алатау
Предгорная зона Иле Алатау в силу своего геоморфологического положения представляет интерес для выявления новых стратифицированных памятников каменного века. Мощные слои эоловых отложений покрывают обширную территорию, которая потенциально может сохранить нетронутые слои человеческой деятельности. В настоящее время хорошо изучены только две стратифицированные палеолитические стоянки – Майбулак и Рахат. Оба памятника датируются от раннего верхнего…
A Newly Dated Late Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeological Assemblage from Bukhtarma Cave in the Southern Altai Piedmont, East Kazakhstan
The Altai mountains contain a number of cave and rockshelter sites that have given crucial information about human evolution in Asia. Most of these caves are located in the Gornyi Altai of Siberia, while the southern flank of the range remains much less known. Bukhtarma Cave was a karstic cave located near the former village of Peshchera, on the banks of the Bukhtarma River running through the foothills of the southern (Kazakh) Altai mountains. T…
Archaeological Research of the Southern Slopes of Karatau (Shimayla Complex)
The authors analyze the results of the study of the archaeological complex of Shimaila. The complex includes rock carvings and a burial mound. These objects were investigated by the Karatau archaeological expedition of Ahmed Yasawi University under the leadership of S.S. Murgabayev. The research materials are being introduced into scientific discourse for the first time. The chronological framework of petroglyphs dates from the Bronze Age to the …
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan
Preference for Porphyry
Only a handful of stratified sites are known in loess, spring, and river contexts in the northern piedmonts of the Tian Shan, and the majority are dated to the Upper Palaeolithic. These sites have been studied from a geoarchaeological perspective; however, lithic procurement activities remain unknown. To address this deficiency, we present the results of the extensive field surveys aimed at locating prehistoric raw material sources in the Inner A…
The effect of formation processes on the frequency of palaeolithic cave sites in semiarid zones
Central Asian caves with Palaeolithic deposits are few, but they provide a rich record of human fossils and cultural assemblages that has been used to model Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals. However, previous research has not yet systematically evaluated the formation processes that influence the frequency of Palaeolithic cave sites in the region. To address this deficiency, we combined field survey and micromorphological analyses in the piedm…
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production
Archaeologists have explored a wide range of topics regarding archaeological stone tools and their connection to past human lifeways through experimentation. Controlled experimentation systematically quantifies the empirical relationships among different flaking variables under a controlled and reproducible setting. This approach offers a platform to generate and test hypotheses about the technological decisions of past knappers from the perspect…
Preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in the piedmont zones of Kazakhstan
The study of raw materials was comprehensively studied in European and African Palaeolithic. However, systematic research of raw material sourcing has not been undertaken for the Palaeolithic of Kazakhstan, such surveys being embedded in reconnaissance works aimed at discovering new Palaeolithic sites. Our work presents preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in Kazakhstan. This study distinguishes the geographic patterns of l…
Operationalizing niche construction theory with stone tools
One of the greatest difficulties with evolutionary approaches in the study of stone tools (lithics) has been finding a mechanism for tying culture and biology in a way that preserves human agency and operates at scales that are visible in the archaeological record. The concept of niche construction, whereby organisms actively construct their environments and change the conditions for selection, could provide a solution to this problem. In this re…
The Effect of Formation Processes on The Frequency of Palaeolithic Cave Sites in Semi-Arid Zones
Central Asian caves with Palaeolithic deposits are few but they provide a rich record of human fossils and cultural assemblages that has been used to model Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals. However, previous research has not yet systematically evaluated the formation processes that influence the frequency of Palaeolithic cave sites in the region. To address this deficiency, we combined field survey and micromorphological analyses in the piedmo…
Time-dependent taphonomic site loss leads to spatial averaging
Archaeologists typically define cultural areas on the basis of similarities between the types of material culture present in sites. The similarity is assessed in order of discovery, with newer sites being evaluated against older ones. Despite evidence for time-dependent site loss due to taphonomy, little attention has been paid to how this impacts archaeological interpretations about the spatial extents of material culture similarity. This paper …
When Lithics Hit Bones
Recent zooarchaeological and isotope analyses have largely settled the debate surrounding Neanderthal hunting capacities, repeatedly demonstrating their successful acquisition of large ungulates. Nevertheless, the functional identification of individual tools as hunting weapons remains a methodological challenge. In-depth studies have focussed mainly on small subsets of lithic artefacts from selected assemblages assessing features of breakage pat…
In search of a Paleolithic Silk Road in Kazakhstan
Right or left? Determining the hand holding the tool from use traces
Finding karstic caves and rockshelters in the Inner Asian mountain corridor using predictive modelling and field survey
The area of the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) follows the foothills and piedmont zones around the northern limits of Asia’s interior mountains, connecting two important areas for human evolution: the Fergana valley and the Siberian Altai. Prior research has suggested the IAMC may have provided an area of connected refugia from harsh climates during the Pleistocene. To date, this region contains very few secure, dateable Pleistocene sites, …
In search of a Paleolithic Silk Road in Kazakhstan
Paleoanthropological data suggest that the Late Pleistocene was a time of population contact and possibly dispersal in Central Asia. Geographic and paleoclimatic data suggest that a natural corridor through Kazakhstan linked areas to the north and east (Siberia, China) to those further to the west and south (Uzbekistan), much akin to a Paleolithic Silk Road. We review the known Pleistocene archaeology and paleoclimatic setting of this region and …
Preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in the piedmont zones of Kazakhstan
The study of raw materials focuses on different aspects of hominin behaviour such as mobility strategies, land-use patterns and raw material transfer. They were comprehensively studied in the Palaeolithic of Europe and Africa. However, systematic studies of raw material sourcing have not been undertaken for the Palaeolithic of Kazakhstan, such surveys being embedded in reconnaissance works aimed at discovering new Palaeolithic sites. Our study pr…
The effects of secondary recycling on the technological character of lithic assemblages
Recycling of lithic artifacts, including both lithic scavenging and secondary recycling, is a widely recognized phenomenon in the Paleolithic archaeological record, in some instances creating tools with morphological signatures characteristic of multiple time periods or technological systems. These types of tools often define transitional industries including those at the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition, suggesting a variety of behavioral …
Aggregates, Formational Emergence, and the Focus on Practice in Stone Artifact Archaeology
The stone artifact record has been one of the major grounds for investigating our evolution. With the predominant focus on their morphological attributes and technological aspects of manufacture, stone artifacts and their assemblages have been analyzed as explicit measures of past behaviors, adaptations, and population histories. This analytical focus on technological and morphological appearance is one of the characteristics of the conventional …
Controlled experiments in lithic technology and function
Ancient Ostia at the mouth of the River Tiber into the Tyrrhenian Sea was largely significant for the economic supply of Rome. Ostia itself experienced an extraordinary period of prosperity in the second century AD. Starting in AD 42, a first new harbour at Portus was built by Emperor Claudius close to Ostia. It reached its full functionality under Emperor Trajan in the early second century AD, only. At Ostia itself, previous archaeological and g…
Loess accumulation in the Tian Shan piedmont
The Measurement and Interpretation of Cortex in Lithic Assemblages
Cortex is often used as an indicator of core reduction and transport, but current measures to evaluate the observed amount of cortex in a lithic assemblage with what might be expected under particular conditions are still ambiguous. The purpose of the present study is to develop and evaluate an alternative method based on solid geometry. This method is evaluated with an experimentally produced assemblage, and implications of its application to ar…
The handaxe reloaded
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry
Major Fallacies Surrounding Stone Artifacts and Assemblages
Projectile impact fractures and launching mechanisms
The relative effects of core surface morphology on flake shape and other attributes
Ontogenetic scaling and lithic systematics
Aggregates, Formational Emergence, and the Focus on Practice in Stone Artifact Archaeology
The stone artifact record has been one of the major grounds for investigating our evolution. With the predominant focus on their morphological attributes and technological aspects of manufacture, stone artifacts and their assemblages have been analyzed as explicit measures of past behaviors, adaptations, and population histories. This analytical focus on technological and morphological appearance is one of the characteristics of the conventional …
A chronological framework connecting the early Upper Palaeolithic across the Central Asian piedmont
Geoarchaeological prospection in the loess steppe
Dealul Guran
Owing to a thick blanket of loess and other later geological disruptions, the earliest hominins to reach Europe are hard to find. To a handful of possible sites, our authors add a new assemblage of lithics with a clear local context and corroborated OSL ages. Ancient humans were present in what is now Romania between 300 000 and 400 000 years ago
The role of edge angle maintenance in explaining technological variation in the production of Late Middle Paleolithic bifacial and unifacial tools
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production
Archaeologists have explored a wide range of topics regarding archaeological stone tools and their connection to past human lifeways through experimentation. Controlled experimentation systematically quantifies the empirical relationships among different flaking variables under a controlled and reproducible setting. This approach offers a platform to generate and test hypotheses about the technological decisions of past knappers from the perspect…
Controlled experiments in lithic technology and function
Ancient Ostia at the mouth of the River Tiber into the Tyrrhenian Sea was largely significant for the economic supply of Rome. Ostia itself experienced an extraordinary period of prosperity in the second century AD. Starting in AD 42, a first new harbour at Portus was built by Emperor Claudius close to Ostia. It reached its full functionality under Emperor Trajan in the early second century AD, only. At Ostia itself, previous archaeological and g…
Reconstructing the Origins and Migrations of Diasporic Populations
The sociohistorical study of Gypsies/Sinti/Roma has been dominated by the “Gypsy‐lorist” paradigm. According to this paradigm, these itinerant people belong to a unitary ethnic group of South Asian origin whose cultural practices have been preserved over the centuries. Recently, this perspective has come under criticism for perpetuating the image of Gypsies as an isolate within the wider context of the development of European societies, and, in p…
The effect of formation processes on the frequency of palaeolithic cave sites in semiarid zones
Central Asian caves with Palaeolithic deposits are few, but they provide a rich record of human fossils and cultural assemblages that has been used to model Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals. However, previous research has not yet systematically evaluated the formation processes that influence the frequency of Palaeolithic cave sites in the region. To address this deficiency, we combined field survey and micromorphological analyses in the piedm…
The effects of secondary recycling on the technological character of lithic assemblages
Recycling of lithic artifacts, including both lithic scavenging and secondary recycling, is a widely recognized phenomenon in the Paleolithic archaeological record, in some instances creating tools with morphological signatures characteristic of multiple time periods or technological systems. These types of tools often define transitional industries including those at the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition, suggesting a variety of behavioral …
Preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in the piedmont zones of Kazakhstan
The study of raw materials was comprehensively studied in European and African Palaeolithic. However, systematic research of raw material sourcing has not been undertaken for the Palaeolithic of Kazakhstan, such surveys being embedded in reconnaissance works aimed at discovering new Palaeolithic sites. Our work presents preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in Kazakhstan. This study distinguishes the geographic patterns of l…
Characteristics of lithic artifact weathering at the Semizbugu surface site complex in semi-arid Central Kazakhstan
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan
The Effect of Formation Processes on The Frequency of Palaeolithic Cave Sites in Semi-Arid Zones
Central Asian caves with Palaeolithic deposits are few but they provide a rich record of human fossils and cultural assemblages that has been used to model Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals. However, previous research has not yet systematically evaluated the formation processes that influence the frequency of Palaeolithic cave sites in the region. To address this deficiency, we combined field survey and micromorphological analyses in the piedmo…
Finding karstic caves and rockshelters in the Inner Asian mountain corridor using predictive modelling and field survey
The area of the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) follows the foothills and piedmont zones around the northern limits of Asia’s interior mountains, connecting two important areas for human evolution: the Fergana valley and the Siberian Altai. Prior research has suggested the IAMC may have provided an area of connected refugia from harsh climates during the Pleistocene. To date, this region contains very few secure, dateable Pleistocene sites, …
Preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in the piedmont zones of Kazakhstan
The study of raw materials focuses on different aspects of hominin behaviour such as mobility strategies, land-use patterns and raw material transfer. They were comprehensively studied in the Palaeolithic of Europe and Africa. However, systematic studies of raw material sourcing have not been undertaken for the Palaeolithic of Kazakhstan, such surveys being embedded in reconnaissance works aimed at discovering new Palaeolithic sites. Our study pr…
Reconstructing the Origins and Migrations of Diasporic Populations
The sociohistorical study of Gypsies/Sinti/Roma has been dominated by the “Gypsy‐lorist” paradigm. According to this paradigm, these itinerant people belong to a unitary ethnic group of South Asian origin whose cultural practices have been preserved over the centuries. Recently, this perspective has come under criticism for perpetuating the image of Gypsies as an isolate within the wider context of the development of European societies, and, in p…
The Measurement and Interpretation of Cortex in Lithic Assemblages
Cortex is often used as an indicator of core reduction and transport, but current measures to evaluate the observed amount of cortex in a lithic assemblage with what might be expected under particular conditions are still ambiguous. The purpose of the present study is to develop and evaluate an alternative method based on solid geometry. This method is evaluated with an experimentally produced assemblage, and implications of its application to ar…
Ontogenetic scaling and lithic systematics
Comparing Stone Tool Resharpening Trajectories with the Aid of Elliptical Fourier Analysis
The relative effects of core surface morphology on flake shape and other attributes
The handaxe reloaded
Dealul Guran
Owing to a thick blanket of loess and other later geological disruptions, the earliest hominins to reach Europe are hard to find. To a handful of possible sites, our authors add a new assemblage of lithics with a clear local context and corroborated OSL ages. Ancient humans were present in what is now Romania between 300 000 and 400 000 years ago
Geoarchaeological prospection in the loess steppe
Projectile impact fractures and launching mechanisms
The role of edge angle maintenance in explaining technological variation in the production of Late Middle Paleolithic bifacial and unifacial tools
Ancient East Polynesian voyaging spheres
Summary and Conclusions
The Lower Paleolithic of Romania Revisited
Identifying Weapon Delivery Systems Using Macrofracture Analysis and Fracture Propagation Velocity
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry
Major Fallacies Surrounding Stone Artifacts and Assemblages
A chronological framework connecting the early Upper Palaeolithic across the Central Asian piedmont
Loess accumulation in the Tian Shan piedmont
Time-dependent taphonomic site loss leads to spatial averaging
Archaeologists typically define cultural areas on the basis of similarities between the types of material culture present in sites. The similarity is assessed in order of discovery, with newer sites being evaluated against older ones. Despite evidence for time-dependent site loss due to taphonomy, little attention has been paid to how this impacts archaeological interpretations about the spatial extents of material culture similarity. This paper …
When Lithics Hit Bones
Recent zooarchaeological and isotope analyses have largely settled the debate surrounding Neanderthal hunting capacities, repeatedly demonstrating their successful acquisition of large ungulates. Nevertheless, the functional identification of individual tools as hunting weapons remains a methodological challenge. In-depth studies have focussed mainly on small subsets of lithic artefacts from selected assemblages assessing features of breakage pat…
In search of a Paleolithic Silk Road in Kazakhstan
Right or left? Determining the hand holding the tool from use traces
Finding karstic caves and rockshelters in the Inner Asian mountain corridor using predictive modelling and field survey
The area of the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) follows the foothills and piedmont zones around the northern limits of Asia’s interior mountains, connecting two important areas for human evolution: the Fergana valley and the Siberian Altai. Prior research has suggested the IAMC may have provided an area of connected refugia from harsh climates during the Pleistocene. To date, this region contains very few secure, dateable Pleistocene sites, …
In search of a Paleolithic Silk Road in Kazakhstan
Paleoanthropological data suggest that the Late Pleistocene was a time of population contact and possibly dispersal in Central Asia. Geographic and paleoclimatic data suggest that a natural corridor through Kazakhstan linked areas to the north and east (Siberia, China) to those further to the west and south (Uzbekistan), much akin to a Paleolithic Silk Road. We review the known Pleistocene archaeology and paleoclimatic setting of this region and …
Preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in the piedmont zones of Kazakhstan
The study of raw materials focuses on different aspects of hominin behaviour such as mobility strategies, land-use patterns and raw material transfer. They were comprehensively studied in the Palaeolithic of Europe and Africa. However, systematic studies of raw material sourcing have not been undertaken for the Palaeolithic of Kazakhstan, such surveys being embedded in reconnaissance works aimed at discovering new Palaeolithic sites. Our study pr…
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