Jonathan Paige
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Paige |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Paige |
| SIGNATURE | PAIGE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9282-7766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Flake it ‘til you Make it
The Tool Systems Approach
Measuring technological complexity across species, as well as across temporal and spatial scales, is an ongoing challenge among authors who work on primatological, archaeological, and/or ethnographic questions. Researchers in these individual fields have developed a number of innovative ways of approaching this issue that reflect the specific affordances of their data with a known set of limitations. However, comparability between these approache…
What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature
The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative) process that combined several innovative stages. Here, we propose that one of these stages was the homin…
Elliptical Fourier analysis of bullet ricochet impact site plan-view shape in concrete
Bullet ricochets often leave impact sites that can be useful for shooting incident reconstruction. Here, we assess the proposal that these sites can potentially provide information about the design and composition of the projectile and possibly the corresponding firearm. We produced impact sites in concrete from five bullet types fired at two distances, for a total of 10 experimental conditions. Then, using elliptical Fourier analysis, we assesse…
The Legality and Ethics of Web Scraping in Archaeology
Web scraping, the practice of automating the collection of data from websites, is a key part of how the internet functions, and it is an increasingly important part of the research tool kit for scientists, cultural resources professionals, and journalists. There are few resources intended to train archaeologists in how to develop web scrapers. Perhaps more importantly, there are also few resources that outline the normative, ethical, and legal fr…
The gravity of Paleolithic hunting
Topographic relief likely played a role in Stone Age hunting. • Hunters may have been able to hunt from on high. • We experimentally assessed the interaction of projectiles with launch height. • As launch height increased, javelin velocity and kinetic energy increased. • Atlatl dart velocity and kinetic energy did not. Topographic relief potentially played an important role in Stone Age hunting from the Middle Paleolithic onwards. Natural physica…
A Dataset Describing the Manufacturing of Stone Tools Over 3 Million Years
This dataset is the product of an attempt to summarize the complexity and variability of tool-making sequences spanning the past 3 million years of hominin evolution. Each of the 155 entires in the dataset represents one technology, or one set of technologies, reported in the literature, and coded in terms of presence or absence of any one of 33 possible procedural units, or tool making techniques. The data were generated by coding published desc…
How Surprising are Lithic Reduction Strategies? The Information Entropy of the Modes A-I Framework
How surprising are the contents of lithic assemblages? If an archeologist excavated an archeological site somewhere in Eurasia and uncovered evidence of Levallois core technology, how surprising would it be? The surprise in the content of a new assemblage is a function of what is underground as well as our prior knowledge about prehistory. How improved is our understanding of the past when another site is excavated? The answer is a measure of the…
Are the intensities and durations of small-scale pottery firings sufficient to completely dehydroxylate clays? Testing a key assumption underlying ceramic rehydroxylation dating
Further diversity in the Early Neolithic of the Southern Levant
Cette contribution présente l’analyse préliminaire d’un assemblage de pierres taillées provenant de niveaux datés du Néolithique précéramique A (PPNA) à el-Hemmeh, Jordanie du Sud. L’échantillon montre des affinités générales avec le matériel du PPNA décrit pour d’autres sites de la Jordanie du Sud, mais suggère également la présence de signes distinctifs au niveau typologique et technologique. Ces derniers incluent la présence d’au moins deux sc…
Further diversity in the Early Neolithic of the Southern Levant
Cette contribution présente l’analyse préliminaire d’un assemblage de pierres taillées provenant de niveaux datés du Néolithique précéramique A (PPNA) à el-Hemmeh, Jordanie du Sud. L’échantillon montre des affinités générales avec le matériel du PPNA décrit pour d’autres sites de la Jordanie du Sud, mais suggère également la présence de signes distinctifs au niveau typologique et technologique. Ces derniers incluent la présence d’au moins deux sc…
How Surprising are Lithic Reduction Strategies? The Information Entropy of the Modes A-I Framework
How surprising are the contents of lithic assemblages? If an archeologist excavated an archeological site somewhere in Eurasia and uncovered evidence of Levallois core technology, how surprising would it be? The surprise in the content of a new assemblage is a function of what is underground as well as our prior knowledge about prehistory. How improved is our understanding of the past when another site is excavated? The answer is a measure of the…
The gravity of Paleolithic hunting
Topographic relief likely played a role in Stone Age hunting. • Hunters may have been able to hunt from on high. • We experimentally assessed the interaction of projectiles with launch height. • As launch height increased, javelin velocity and kinetic energy increased. • Atlatl dart velocity and kinetic energy did not. Topographic relief potentially played an important role in Stone Age hunting from the Middle Paleolithic onwards. Natural physica…
Are the intensities and durations of small-scale pottery firings sufficient to completely dehydroxylate clays? Testing a key assumption underlying ceramic rehydroxylation dating
Further diversity in the Early Neolithic of the Southern Levant
Cette contribution présente l’analyse préliminaire d’un assemblage de pierres taillées provenant de niveaux datés du Néolithique précéramique A (PPNA) à el-Hemmeh, Jordanie du Sud. L’échantillon montre des affinités générales avec le matériel du PPNA décrit pour d’autres sites de la Jordanie du Sud, mais suggère également la présence de signes distinctifs au niveau typologique et technologique. Ces derniers incluent la présence d’au moins deux sc…
Are the intensities and durations of small-scale pottery firings sufficient to completely dehydroxylate clays? Testing a key assumption underlying ceramic rehydroxylation dating
How Surprising are Lithic Reduction Strategies? The Information Entropy of the Modes A-I Framework
How surprising are the contents of lithic assemblages? If an archeologist excavated an archeological site somewhere in Eurasia and uncovered evidence of Levallois core technology, how surprising would it be? The surprise in the content of a new assemblage is a function of what is underground as well as our prior knowledge about prehistory. How improved is our understanding of the past when another site is excavated? The answer is a measure of the…
A Dataset Describing the Manufacturing of Stone Tools Over 3 Million Years
This dataset is the product of an attempt to summarize the complexity and variability of tool-making sequences spanning the past 3 million years of hominin evolution. Each of the 155 entires in the dataset represents one technology, or one set of technologies, reported in the literature, and coded in terms of presence or absence of any one of 33 possible procedural units, or tool making techniques. The data were generated by coding published desc…
The Legality and Ethics of Web Scraping in Archaeology
Web scraping, the practice of automating the collection of data from websites, is a key part of how the internet functions, and it is an increasingly important part of the research tool kit for scientists, cultural resources professionals, and journalists. There are few resources intended to train archaeologists in how to develop web scrapers. Perhaps more importantly, there are also few resources that outline the normative, ethical, and legal fr…
The gravity of Paleolithic hunting
Topographic relief likely played a role in Stone Age hunting. • Hunters may have been able to hunt from on high. • We experimentally assessed the interaction of projectiles with launch height. • As launch height increased, javelin velocity and kinetic energy increased. • Atlatl dart velocity and kinetic energy did not. Topographic relief potentially played an important role in Stone Age hunting from the Middle Paleolithic onwards. Natural physica…
What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature
The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative) process that combined several innovative stages. Here, we propose that one of these stages was the homin…
Elliptical Fourier analysis of bullet ricochet impact site plan-view shape in concrete
Bullet ricochets often leave impact sites that can be useful for shooting incident reconstruction. Here, we assess the proposal that these sites can potentially provide information about the design and composition of the projectile and possibly the corresponding firearm. We produced impact sites in concrete from five bullet types fired at two distances, for a total of 10 experimental conditions. Then, using elliptical Fourier analysis, we assesse…
Flake it ‘til you Make it
The Tool Systems Approach
Measuring technological complexity across species, as well as across temporal and spatial scales, is an ongoing challenge among authors who work on primatological, archaeological, and/or ethnographic questions. Researchers in these individual fields have developed a number of innovative ways of approaching this issue that reflect the specific affordances of their data with a known set of limitations. However, comparability between these approache…
Archaeology (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Geography (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Assemblage (archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (2 works)