An Actualistic Experimental Study of Giant Quartzite Core Reduction Strategies
Implications for Large Flake Blank Production and Handaxe Manufacture at Amanzi Springs, South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6435577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Coen G Wilson (0000-0002-4671-8435, La Trobe University), M Caruana (0000-0002-2095-5360, Palaeo Research Institute, University of Johannesburg), B Bradley (0000-0002-6619-2549, University of Exeter), Robert A Muir (0000-0003-2117-5064, University of the Free State), Alexander F Blackwood (0000-0002-6021-6191, La Trobe University), Andy I R Herries (0000-0002-2905-2002, La Trobe University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 463-479 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Field Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-4690 • E-ISSN: 2042-4582 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00934690.2024.2401284 |
| OpenAlex | W4402655310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 65 |
Archaeology · Blank · Flake · Geography · Geology · Materials Science · Mineral Processing and Grinding · Mining and Gasification Technologies · Mining Techniques and Economics
Flake it ‘til you Make it
Identifying Expert-Made Handaxes from the Amanzi Springs Acheulian Site (South Africa) Using Elastic Net Multinomial Logistic Regression
Reduction dynamics in Later Acheulian handaxe manufacture at Amanzi Springs (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Excavations at the Stone Age Site of Nyabusora in the western Lake Victoria-Nyanza Basin, Tanzania
Flintknapping
Agmt3-D
Stone tools, language and the brain in human evolution
Culture and cognition in the Acheulian industry
Olduvai Gorge
A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of Plan Shape in Bone and Stone Acheulean Bifaces from the Middle Pleistocene Site of Castel di Guido, Latium, Italy
Lithics
Why did the Acheulean happen? Experimental studies into the manufacture and function of Acheulean artifacts
La question du débitage de grands éclats à l’Acheuléen
Toward a “Quantitative Genetic” Approach to Lithic Variation
Note on the Proportional Frequency of Side- and End-Struck Flakes
Experimental flaking in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region (central China)
Why large Flakes? Later Acheulian handaxe manufacture at Amanzi Springs, Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Mitigating Mishaps
Excavations in the Acheulean Levels at the Earlier Stone Age Site of Canteen Koppie, Northern Province, South Africa
Extrapolating Later Acheulian Handaxe Reduction Sequences in South Africa
A Late Acheulean Culture on the Chinese Loess Plateau
The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov Volume IV
Flakes Crossing the Straits? Entame Flakes and Northern Africa–Iberia Contact During the Acheulean
The stone tools from stratigraphical unit 4 of the Bois-de-Riquet site (Lézignan-la-Cèbe, Hérault, France)
An Acheulian Biface Assemblage from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel
Experts Also Fail
Beyond a Cutting Edge
The technology and significance of the Acheulian giant cores of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel
Modelling production mishaps in later Acheulian handaxes from the Area 1 excavation at Amanzi Springs (Eastern Cape, South Africa) and their effects on reduction and morphology
Blank Concerns
Predetermined Refinement
Structural study of two quartzite varieties from the Utrillas facies formation (Olmos de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)
A new method for 3D geometric morphometric shape analysis
British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Handaxe Groups
Large flake Acheulian
The role of raw material differences in stone tool shape variation
The impact of raw material on Acheulian large flake production
Late Acheulean technology and cognition at Boxgrove, UK
Levallois Lithic Technology from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Acheulian Large Flake Industries
New investigations at Kalambo Falls, Zambia
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa
Do a few tools necessarily mean a few people? A techno-morphological approach to the question of group size at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel
A marine isotope stage 13 Acheulian sequence from the Amanzi Springs Area 2 Deep Sounding excavation, Eastern Cape, South Africa
The design space of stone flaking
Stone tool experiments and reduction methods at the Acheulean site of Isampur Quarry, India
The Kombewa Culture, Kenya Colony
Acheulian Giant-Core Technology
The Large Cutting Tools from the South African Acheulean and the Question of Social Traditions
Skill and Cognition in Stone Tool Production
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |