Annelou Van Gijn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 208447 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Annelou Van Gijn |
| PRENOMES | Annelou |
| SOBRENOME | Van Gijn |
| ASSINATURA | VAN GIJN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1839-2666 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 240 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Unstitching the Past
For Paleo-Inuit cultures, needles are arguably one of the most important artefact types, as they were used to create warm, waterproof clothing that is essential for survival in Arctic environments. This, in combination with the prevalence of needles within archaeological collections, has prompted many researchers to the topic of Paleo-Inuit needles. However, the majority of their studies have approached the material using traditional, typological…
Reflections on hide-working
Dehairing can potentially yield different use-wear traces than dry hide scraping on flint artifacts. • Traces of later stages of hide-processing, as well as resharpening, can indicate long-term occupation of settlements. • Similar studies could be applied to the Corded Ware Culture or other groups practicing logistic mobility. As part of the Putting Life into Late Neolithic Houses 1 1 ‘Putting Life Into Late Neolithic Houses: investigating domest…
Recycling Neolithic Axes
In the western Netherlands Neolithic axes are hardly ever found in a complete state. Flint is scarce in this area and when these axes were exhausted, or when they broke during use, they were often re-used as flake cores. Vlaardingen Culture (3400–2500 BC) sites often yield large quantities of flakes and retouched tools made on polished axe fragments. Using an experimental approach, we tried to better understand the importance of recycling of thes…
Deer ghosts
Toolkits for metapodium technique identified. • Bone-working techniques depended on available species. • Metapodium technique only applied where deer were hunted − Preference for deer bone determined technological choices. This paper explores the application of use-wear analysis on flint tools for the reconstruction of bone-working toolkits. Lithics from three Neolithic Vlaardingen Culture (3400–2500 BCE) sites were analysed. We successfully iden…
A holistic provenance and microwear study of pre-colonial jade objects from the Virgin Islands
Pre-colonial Caribbean jade objects from the National Museum of Denmark Hatt Collection were subjected to a provenance and microwear analysis. Thirty-nine jade celts and bodily ornaments from the US Virgin Islands, i.e., St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, and five celts from the West Indies of unknown location, St. Vincent, Cuba and the Dominican Republic were analysed. A comprehensive in-depth examination of jade adornments from St. Croix, combini…
Influence of grinding on the preservation of starch grains from rice
China is a major centre for rice domestication, where starch grain analysis has been widely applied to archaeological grinding tools to gain information about plant use by ancient Chinese societies. However, few rice starch grains have been identified to date. To understand this apparent scarcity of starch grains from rice, dry‐ and wet‐grinding experiments with stone tools were carried out on four types of cereals: rice ( Oryza sativa L.), foxta…
Lapidary production in the eastern Caribbean
The present paper examines bodily ornaments made of semiprecious lithic materials from the site of Pearls on the island of Grenada. The site was an important node in long-distance interaction networks at play between circum-Caribbean communities during the first centuries of the Common Era. Pearls was an amethyst bead-making workshop and a gateway to South America, from where certain lapidary raw materials likely originated. The importance of the…
Plant Foods and Different Uses of Grinding Tools at the Neolithic Site of Tanghu in Central China
In the central plain of China, grinding tools are a common category of artefacts at sites attributed to the Peiligang Culture (c. 9000-7000 BP). This paper focuses on the grinding tool assemblage from the site of Tanghu, the largest Peiligang Culture settlement yet discovered. The results from the microwear and residue analyses both suggest that cereals were the primary plant material processed with the grinding tools. Other plants, including aco…
The Biographies of Bodily Ornaments from Indigenous Settlements of the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600)
In this study, we generate novel insights regarding bodily ornaments from indigenous societies of late precolonial Greater Antilles. Previous research has highlighted the sociopolitical role of valuable, exotic, and figurative ornaments, yet there are many gaps in our current understanding of these artifacts. Here, we focus on ornaments from five recently excavated sites in the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600). We used microwear analysis to inves…
New insights into the grinding tools used by the earliest farmers in the central plain of China
Anatomy of a notch. An in-depth experimental investigation and interpretation of combat traces on Bronze Age swords
Cereal processing technique inferred from use-wear analysis at the Neolithic site of Jiahu, Central China
New Insights into Use-Wear Development in Bodily Ornaments Through the Study of Ethnographic Collections
The use of microwear analysis has made substantial contributions to the study of archaeological bodily ornaments. However, limitations persist with regard to the interpretation of use and the reconstruction of systems of attachment, hampering a holistic understanding of the diversity of past bodily adornment. This is because the complexities of ornament biographies and the resulting wear traces cannot be grasped exclusively from the study of expe…
Stone Dead
In Europe, cremation as a burial practice is often associated with the Bronze Age, but examples of cremated human remains are in fact known from the Palaeolithic onwards. Unlike conventional inhumation, cremation destroys most of the evidence we can use to reconstruct the biography of the buried individual. Remarkably, in Ireland, cremation is used for the earliest recorded human burial and grave assemblage (7530–7320 bc ) located on the banks of…
Tools, use wear and experimentation
Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela
Fire production in the deep past? The expedient strike-a-light model
Toolkits for ceramic production
L’analyse technologique et fonctionnelle des «trousses à outils » de potier peut nous fournir des indications sur la structure des sociétés du passé. Les expérimentations menées avec des outils en silex, des galets, des coquillages, des coraux et des tessons ont montré que chacune de ces catégories d’objets pouvait être utilisée à différentes étapes de la chaîne opératoire de fabrication des vases, selon un mode de fonctionnement propre. La prése…
The use of exotic flint and the neolithisation of the Lower Rhine Basin (NL)
More than a millennium passed between the arrival of the first Bandkeramik farmers in Limburg, in present-day Netherlands, and the gradual incorporation of an agricultural way of life by the indigenous hunter-gatherers. During this time flint from further south found its way to the wetlands. Use-wear analysis of these imported flints shows a distinct difference in the way these objects were treated during the earlier and the later phase of the Mi…
Were they used as tools? An exploratory functional study of abraded potsherds from two pre-colonial sites on the island of Guadeloupe, northern Lesser Antilles
Abraded potsherds from Caribbean archaeological sites have rounded, square or oval shapes due to human modification. Microscopic analysis of traces of wear was performed on the abraded potsherds from two sites on Guadeloupe, Anse à la Gourde and Morel. Explorative experiments proved the sherds to be very effective for pottery production but considerably less functional for other activities. High power use wear analysis of the archaeological sherd…
The Functional Riddle of 'Glossy' Canaanean Blades and the Near Eastern Threshing Sledge
This paper examines aspects of the agricultural activities and network supported by †̃Canaaneanâ€TM blade segments from Ninevite V sites located principally in Syria and Iraq. Technological and functional analyses of an extensive sample of these tools, alongside experimental and ethnoarchaeological reference data, point to their use as instruments for working cereals, but not a harvesting tool (sickle) as is usually assumed. Our analyses indicate…
The Functional Riddle of ?Glossy? Canaanean Blades and the Near Eastern Threshing Sledge
De-mystifying Pottery Production in the Maya Lowlands
Site J»
La carrière de Maastricht-Belvédère, connue pour ses sites bien préservés datant de l'avant-dernier interglaciaire (stade isotopique 7), a aussi livré un site datant du début de la dernière glaciation (stade isotopique 5). Des analyses technologiques, typologiques et tracéologiques de cet assemblage non-Levallois ont démontré un comportement assez paradoxal avec d'une part, un gaspillage lithique, et d'autre part une forte économie des matières p…
Testing Postulate I
New Insights into Use-Wear Development in Bodily Ornaments Through the Study of Ethnographic Collections
The use of microwear analysis has made substantial contributions to the study of archaeological bodily ornaments. However, limitations persist with regard to the interpretation of use and the reconstruction of systems of attachment, hampering a holistic understanding of the diversity of past bodily adornment. This is because the complexities of ornament biographies and the resulting wear traces cannot be grasped exclusively from the study of expe…
Site J»
La carrière de Maastricht-Belvédère, connue pour ses sites bien préservés datant de l'avant-dernier interglaciaire (stade isotopique 7), a aussi livré un site datant du début de la dernière glaciation (stade isotopique 5). Des analyses technologiques, typologiques et tracéologiques de cet assemblage non-Levallois ont démontré un comportement assez paradoxal avec d'une part, un gaspillage lithique, et d'autre part une forte économie des matières p…
An Inquiry into the Ethnic Resolution of Mesolithic Regional Groups
Recent Western European Mesolithic research has greatly augmented our understanding of the time and space parameters of material derived from settlements. Perusals of those regularities have led to a renewed scrutiny of the ethnographic literature in an attempt to perceive the resulting temporal and spatial units as anthropologically relevant regional groups. The proposition that the breeding population was identical to the ethnic identity of the…
Fire production in the deep past? The expedient strike-a-light model
The Functional Riddle of ?Glossy? Canaanean Blades and the Near Eastern Threshing Sledge
De-mystifying Pottery Production in the Maya Lowlands
Anatomy of a notch. An in-depth experimental investigation and interpretation of combat traces on Bronze Age swords
The Biographies of Bodily Ornaments from Indigenous Settlements of the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600)
In this study, we generate novel insights regarding bodily ornaments from indigenous societies of late precolonial Greater Antilles. Previous research has highlighted the sociopolitical role of valuable, exotic, and figurative ornaments, yet there are many gaps in our current understanding of these artifacts. Here, we focus on ornaments from five recently excavated sites in the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600). We used microwear analysis to inves…
Stone Dead
In Europe, cremation as a burial practice is often associated with the Bronze Age, but examples of cremated human remains are in fact known from the Palaeolithic onwards. Unlike conventional inhumation, cremation destroys most of the evidence we can use to reconstruct the biography of the buried individual. Remarkably, in Ireland, cremation is used for the earliest recorded human burial and grave assemblage (7530–7320 bc ) located on the banks of…
The Functional Riddle of 'Glossy' Canaanean Blades and the Near Eastern Threshing Sledge
This paper examines aspects of the agricultural activities and network supported by †̃Canaaneanâ€TM blade segments from Ninevite V sites located principally in Syria and Iraq. Technological and functional analyses of an extensive sample of these tools, alongside experimental and ethnoarchaeological reference data, point to their use as instruments for working cereals, but not a harvesting tool (sickle) as is usually assumed. Our analyses indicate…
Plant Foods and Different Uses of Grinding Tools at the Neolithic Site of Tanghu in Central China
In the central plain of China, grinding tools are a common category of artefacts at sites attributed to the Peiligang Culture (c. 9000-7000 BP). This paper focuses on the grinding tool assemblage from the site of Tanghu, the largest Peiligang Culture settlement yet discovered. The results from the microwear and residue analyses both suggest that cereals were the primary plant material processed with the grinding tools. Other plants, including aco…
Lapidary production in the eastern Caribbean
The present paper examines bodily ornaments made of semiprecious lithic materials from the site of Pearls on the island of Grenada. The site was an important node in long-distance interaction networks at play between circum-Caribbean communities during the first centuries of the Common Era. Pearls was an amethyst bead-making workshop and a gateway to South America, from where certain lapidary raw materials likely originated. The importance of the…
Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela
Toolkits for ceramic production
L’analyse technologique et fonctionnelle des «trousses à outils » de potier peut nous fournir des indications sur la structure des sociétés du passé. Les expérimentations menées avec des outils en silex, des galets, des coquillages, des coraux et des tessons ont montré que chacune de ces catégories d’objets pouvait être utilisée à différentes étapes de la chaîne opératoire de fabrication des vases, selon un mode de fonctionnement propre. La prése…
Influence of grinding on the preservation of starch grains from rice
China is a major centre for rice domestication, where starch grain analysis has been widely applied to archaeological grinding tools to gain information about plant use by ancient Chinese societies. However, few rice starch grains have been identified to date. To understand this apparent scarcity of starch grains from rice, dry‐ and wet‐grinding experiments with stone tools were carried out on four types of cereals: rice ( Oryza sativa L.), foxta…
Cereal processing technique inferred from use-wear analysis at the Neolithic site of Jiahu, Central China
Reflections on hide-working
Dehairing can potentially yield different use-wear traces than dry hide scraping on flint artifacts. • Traces of later stages of hide-processing, as well as resharpening, can indicate long-term occupation of settlements. • Similar studies could be applied to the Corded Ware Culture or other groups practicing logistic mobility. As part of the Putting Life into Late Neolithic Houses 1 1 ‘Putting Life Into Late Neolithic Houses: investigating domest…
Recycling Neolithic Axes
In the western Netherlands Neolithic axes are hardly ever found in a complete state. Flint is scarce in this area and when these axes were exhausted, or when they broke during use, they were often re-used as flake cores. Vlaardingen Culture (3400–2500 BC) sites often yield large quantities of flakes and retouched tools made on polished axe fragments. Using an experimental approach, we tried to better understand the importance of recycling of thes…
Deer ghosts
Toolkits for metapodium technique identified. • Bone-working techniques depended on available species. • Metapodium technique only applied where deer were hunted − Preference for deer bone determined technological choices. This paper explores the application of use-wear analysis on flint tools for the reconstruction of bone-working toolkits. Lithics from three Neolithic Vlaardingen Culture (3400–2500 BCE) sites were analysed. We successfully iden…
Testing Postulate I
The Archaeological Sample, Source Criticism, and Data-Scaling
The Time, Space and Frequency Analyses of the Constituent Types of Mesolithic Decorative Ornaments
Epilogue
Plates
The Mesolithic Population of Western Europe and its Cultural and Social Organization
The Ethnic Resolution of Language and its Functional Equivalents
Evaluation
A Classification of Mesolithic Ornaments
The Modeling and Methodology of Mesolithic Ethnicity
Testing Postulate III
The Temporal Partitioning of Mesolithic Ornaments into Chronologically Homogeneous Sub-Sets
The Spatial Analysis
Conclusion
Testing Postulate II
An Inquiry into the Ethnic Resolution of Mesolithic Regional Groups
Recent Western European Mesolithic research has greatly augmented our understanding of the time and space parameters of material derived from settlements. Perusals of those regularities have led to a renewed scrutiny of the ethnographic literature in an attempt to perceive the resulting temporal and spatial units as anthropologically relevant regional groups. The proposition that the breeding population was identical to the ethnic identity of the…
Site J»
La carrière de Maastricht-Belvédère, connue pour ses sites bien préservés datant de l'avant-dernier interglaciaire (stade isotopique 7), a aussi livré un site datant du début de la dernière glaciation (stade isotopique 5). Des analyses technologiques, typologiques et tracéologiques de cet assemblage non-Levallois ont démontré un comportement assez paradoxal avec d'une part, un gaspillage lithique, et d'autre part une forte économie des matières p…
De-mystifying Pottery Production in the Maya Lowlands
The Functional Riddle of ?Glossy? Canaanean Blades and the Near Eastern Threshing Sledge
The Functional Riddle of 'Glossy' Canaanean Blades and the Near Eastern Threshing Sledge
This paper examines aspects of the agricultural activities and network supported by †̃Canaaneanâ€TM blade segments from Ninevite V sites located principally in Syria and Iraq. Technological and functional analyses of an extensive sample of these tools, alongside experimental and ethnoarchaeological reference data, point to their use as instruments for working cereals, but not a harvesting tool (sickle) as is usually assumed. Our analyses indicate…
Were they used as tools? An exploratory functional study of abraded potsherds from two pre-colonial sites on the island of Guadeloupe, northern Lesser Antilles
Abraded potsherds from Caribbean archaeological sites have rounded, square or oval shapes due to human modification. Microscopic analysis of traces of wear was performed on the abraded potsherds from two sites on Guadeloupe, Anse à la Gourde and Morel. Explorative experiments proved the sherds to be very effective for pottery production but considerably less functional for other activities. High power use wear analysis of the archaeological sherd…
The use of exotic flint and the neolithisation of the Lower Rhine Basin (NL)
More than a millennium passed between the arrival of the first Bandkeramik farmers in Limburg, in present-day Netherlands, and the gradual incorporation of an agricultural way of life by the indigenous hunter-gatherers. During this time flint from further south found its way to the wetlands. Use-wear analysis of these imported flints shows a distinct difference in the way these objects were treated during the earlier and the later phase of the Mi…
Toolkits for ceramic production
L’analyse technologique et fonctionnelle des «trousses à outils » de potier peut nous fournir des indications sur la structure des sociétés du passé. Les expérimentations menées avec des outils en silex, des galets, des coquillages, des coraux et des tessons ont montré que chacune de ces catégories d’objets pouvait être utilisée à différentes étapes de la chaîne opératoire de fabrication des vases, selon un mode de fonctionnement propre. La prése…
Fire production in the deep past? The expedient strike-a-light model
Tools, use wear and experimentation
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (30 obras) · Archaeology (28 obras) · Geography (24 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 obras) · History (11 obras) · Mesolithic (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · History (8 obras) · Ornaments (8 obras) · Geology (7 obras)