Coen G Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 237795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Coen G Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Coen G |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4671-8435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identifying Expert-Made Handaxes from the Amanzi Springs Acheulian Site (South Africa) Using Elastic Net Multinomial Logistic Regression
Examining technical skill in the production of large cutting tools (i.e., handaxes and cleavers) has provided valuable insight into the sources of technological and morphological variation observed in Acheulian lithic assemblages. Yet differentiating artefacts according to levels of skilled performance remains challenging and hinders our ability to study the representation of knapping competencies in the archaeological record. Here, we employ mul…
Reduction dynamics in Later Acheulian handaxe manufacture at Amanzi Springs (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Amanzi Springs is a series of springs in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa that preserves several later Acheulian occupations dated to between ∼ 550 and ∼ 300 ka. Differences in blank selection strategies at Amanzi Springs have been identified as a key factor conditioning the technological and morphological variability of these later Acheulian handaxe assemblages. However, despite initial morphological differences between quartzite cobble…
Acheulean in Southern Africa: Latest Perspectives
Acheulean sites in southern Africa continue to play an important role in understanding the evolution of Earlier Stone Age technology. While there are over fifty Acheulean localities documented in this region, contextual challenges often limit their potential to develop well‐defined stratigraphic and chronological constraints. Despite this, recent trends in Acheulean research have emphasized the importance of examining site formation issues on bot…
Why large Flakes? Later Acheulian handaxe manufacture at Amanzi Springs, Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Middle Pleistocene knappers at Amanzi Springs were able to anticipate challenges of the locally available raw materials by producing a range of large flake blank morphologies to overcome knapping mishaps. • The production of a variety of large flake blank types offered knappers the opportunity to shortcut both the thinning and decortication phases of handaxe manufacture. • Adoption of giant core reduction methods to local raw materials was critic…
An Actualistic Experimental Study of Giant Quartzite Core Reduction Strategies: Implications for Large Flake Blank Production and Handaxe Manufacture at Amanzi Springs, South Africa
Amanzi Springs, South Africa
A marine isotope stage 13 Acheulian sequence from the Amanzi Springs Area 2 Deep Sounding excavation, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Mitigating Mishaps: Diachronic Trends in Handaxe Shaping and Knapping Error Management at Amanzi Springs Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Tracing the acquisition of knapping skill in the Acheulian technocomplex is complicated by incomplete records of lithic production. Some studies have turned attention to examining knapping errors as a means of identifying signatures of toolmaking expertise in the deep past. Such insights have recently been applied to handaxes from the Area 1 spring eye at Amanzi Springs, which have suggested this locality functioned as a Large Cutting Tool worksh…
Contemporaneity of Australopithecus , Paranthropus , and early Homo erectus in South Africa
Dating the Drimolen hominins Fossil hominins from South Africa are enriching the story of early human evolution and dispersal. Herries et al. describe the geological context and dating of the hominin-bearing infilled cave, or palaeocave, at a site called Drimolen in South Africa (see the Perspective by Antón). They focus on the age and context of a recently discovered Homo erectus sensu lato fossil and a Paranthropus robustus fossil, which they d…
A marine isotope stage 13 Acheulian sequence from the Amanzi Springs Area 2 Deep Sounding excavation, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Mitigating Mishaps: Diachronic Trends in Handaxe Shaping and Knapping Error Management at Amanzi Springs Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Tracing the acquisition of knapping skill in the Acheulian technocomplex is complicated by incomplete records of lithic production. Some studies have turned attention to examining knapping errors as a means of identifying signatures of toolmaking expertise in the deep past. Such insights have recently been applied to handaxes from the Area 1 spring eye at Amanzi Springs, which have suggested this locality functioned as a Large Cutting Tool worksh…
Why large Flakes? Later Acheulian handaxe manufacture at Amanzi Springs, Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Middle Pleistocene knappers at Amanzi Springs were able to anticipate challenges of the locally available raw materials by producing a range of large flake blank morphologies to overcome knapping mishaps. • The production of a variety of large flake blank types offered knappers the opportunity to shortcut both the thinning and decortication phases of handaxe manufacture. • Adoption of giant core reduction methods to local raw materials was critic…
An Actualistic Experimental Study of Giant Quartzite Core Reduction Strategies: Implications for Large Flake Blank Production and Handaxe Manufacture at Amanzi Springs, South Africa
Contemporaneity of Australopithecus , Paranthropus , and early Homo erectus in South Africa
Dating the Drimolen hominins Fossil hominins from South Africa are enriching the story of early human evolution and dispersal. Herries et al. describe the geological context and dating of the hominin-bearing infilled cave, or palaeocave, at a site called Drimolen in South Africa (see the Perspective by Antón). They focus on the age and context of a recently discovered Homo erectus sensu lato fossil and a Paranthropus robustus fossil, which they d…
Mitigating Mishaps: Diachronic Trends in Handaxe Shaping and Knapping Error Management at Amanzi Springs Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Tracing the acquisition of knapping skill in the Acheulian technocomplex is complicated by incomplete records of lithic production. Some studies have turned attention to examining knapping errors as a means of identifying signatures of toolmaking expertise in the deep past. Such insights have recently been applied to handaxes from the Area 1 spring eye at Amanzi Springs, which have suggested this locality functioned as a Large Cutting Tool worksh…
Amanzi Springs, South Africa
A marine isotope stage 13 Acheulian sequence from the Amanzi Springs Area 2 Deep Sounding excavation, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Acheulean in Southern Africa: Latest Perspectives
Acheulean sites in southern Africa continue to play an important role in understanding the evolution of Earlier Stone Age technology. While there are over fifty Acheulean localities documented in this region, contextual challenges often limit their potential to develop well‐defined stratigraphic and chronological constraints. Despite this, recent trends in Acheulean research have emphasized the importance of examining site formation issues on bot…
Why large Flakes? Later Acheulian handaxe manufacture at Amanzi Springs, Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Middle Pleistocene knappers at Amanzi Springs were able to anticipate challenges of the locally available raw materials by producing a range of large flake blank morphologies to overcome knapping mishaps. • The production of a variety of large flake blank types offered knappers the opportunity to shortcut both the thinning and decortication phases of handaxe manufacture. • Adoption of giant core reduction methods to local raw materials was critic…
An Actualistic Experimental Study of Giant Quartzite Core Reduction Strategies: Implications for Large Flake Blank Production and Handaxe Manufacture at Amanzi Springs, South Africa
Identifying Expert-Made Handaxes from the Amanzi Springs Acheulian Site (South Africa) Using Elastic Net Multinomial Logistic Regression
Examining technical skill in the production of large cutting tools (i.e., handaxes and cleavers) has provided valuable insight into the sources of technological and morphological variation observed in Acheulian lithic assemblages. Yet differentiating artefacts according to levels of skilled performance remains challenging and hinders our ability to study the representation of knapping competencies in the archaeological record. Here, we employ mul…
Reduction dynamics in Later Acheulian handaxe manufacture at Amanzi Springs (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Amanzi Springs is a series of springs in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa that preserves several later Acheulian occupations dated to between ∼ 550 and ∼ 300 ka. Differences in blank selection strategies at Amanzi Springs have been identified as a key factor conditioning the technological and morphological variability of these later Acheulian handaxe assemblages. However, despite initial morphological differences between quartzite cobble…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Excavation (3 works) · Flake (3 works) · Knapping (3 works)