55 research outputs found

    Sur les traces des premiers débitages par pression (Hokkaïdō, Sibérie, Alaska)

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    Sur les traces des premiers débitages par pression au Japon : Fonctionnement et économie de l’outillage de pierre taillée à Pirika, île d’Hokkaïdo , Japon

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    International audienceThe history of techniques is punctuated with innovations which transformed human ways of lifeover the millennia, enabling people to live in a wide variety of environments. The production of toolsby pressure knapping is one of those innovations marking a major technical change. After itsemergence during the Last Glacial Maximum, it was implemented for over ten millennia to meet theneeds of human groups in subarctic and arctic environments in Northeast Asia and North America.This paper analyses the functioning and the economy of the stone tools from the Pirika site (Japan),which yields one of the earliestknownpressure microblade component in Northeast Asia.Thepurposeis to understand how this innovative toolkit participated in the adaptation of human societies to coldenvironments. The anticipation of future needs had a key role in the techno-economic organisationat Pirika. This is likely to have greatly contributed to the success of pressure microblade technologiesin cold environments.L’histoire des techniques est jalonnée d’innovations plus ou moins pérennes qui ont transformé lesles modes de vie des sociétés humaines au cours des millénaires et leur ont permis d’investir unegrande variété d’environnements. La production d’outils par pression compte parmi les innovationsayant marqué un changement technique majeur au cours de cette histoire. Après son émergencependant le Dernier Maximum Glaciaire, elle a été mise en oeuvre pendant plus de dix millénaires pourrépondre aux besoins des groupes humains en milieux subarctique et arctique au Nord-Est de l’Asieet en Amérique du Nord. Pour comprendre comment ce bagage technique éminemment innovant aparticipé à l’adaptation des sociétés humaines aux environnements froids, cet article analyse lefonctionnement et l’économie de l’outillage de pierre taillée du site de Pirika (Nord du Japon), qui livrel’un des plus anciens ensembles à composante lamellaire par pression connu en Asie du Nord-Est.L’anticipation des besoins a eu une place considérable dans l’organisation techno-économique dePirika et cela a probablement largement participé au succès des technologies lamellaires par pressionen milieu froid

    Challenging current perspectives on Late Pleistocene stone toolkits across Beringia through use-wear analysis

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    International audienceMicroblade technologies are a structuring component of the Late Pleistocene archaeology across the Bering Strait because of their wide chronological and geographical extension. To fully understand the techno-economical strategies underlying the success of this innovative toolkit in periglacial environments, this presentation proposes a macro-regional techno-functional comparison of contexts yielding early microblade components on Hokkaïdo (Pirika), in Eastern Siberia (Kovrizhka IV) and in Interior Alaska (Swan Point). Use-wear data allow defining how tools were implemented (gesture, worked materials, hafting) and managed (sharpening, reuse, multiple uses, recycling, transport). Specific tool categories such as endscrapers were specialized in a task and had long biographies, while microblades were multipurpose tools with short lifetimes. Their high standardization and overproduction may have aimed at a fast and easy maintenance of composite tools. Chaînes opératoires were segmented at different steps (e.g., tools production and use, hide processing), facilitating the mobility of groups. These data show that in the contexts considered, the anticipation of needs was an important feature of the life of nomadic societies of hunter-gatherers

    Sur les traces des premiers débitages par pression au Japon : Fonctionnement et économie de l’outillage de pierre taillée à Pirika, île d’Hokkaïdo , Japon

    No full text
    International audienceThe history of techniques is punctuated with innovations which transformed human ways of lifeover the millennia, enabling people to live in a wide variety of environments. The production of toolsby pressure knapping is one of those innovations marking a major technical change. After itsemergence during the Last Glacial Maximum, it was implemented for over ten millennia to meet theneeds of human groups in subarctic and arctic environments in Northeast Asia and North America.This paper analyses the functioning and the economy of the stone tools from the Pirika site (Japan),which yields one of the earliestknownpressure microblade component in Northeast Asia.Thepurposeis to understand how this innovative toolkit participated in the adaptation of human societies to coldenvironments. The anticipation of future needs had a key role in the techno-economic organisationat Pirika. This is likely to have greatly contributed to the success of pressure microblade technologiesin cold environments.L’histoire des techniques est jalonnée d’innovations plus ou moins pérennes qui ont transformé lesles modes de vie des sociétés humaines au cours des millénaires et leur ont permis d’investir unegrande variété d’environnements. La production d’outils par pression compte parmi les innovationsayant marqué un changement technique majeur au cours de cette histoire. Après son émergencependant le Dernier Maximum Glaciaire, elle a été mise en oeuvre pendant plus de dix millénaires pourrépondre aux besoins des groupes humains en milieux subarctique et arctique au Nord-Est de l’Asieet en Amérique du Nord. Pour comprendre comment ce bagage technique éminemment innovant aparticipé à l’adaptation des sociétés humaines aux environnements froids, cet article analyse lefonctionnement et l’économie de l’outillage de pierre taillée du site de Pirika (Nord du Japon), qui livrel’un des plus anciens ensembles à composante lamellaire par pression connu en Asie du Nord-Est.L’anticipation des besoins a eu une place considérable dans l’organisation techno-économique dePirika et cela a probablement largement participé au succès des technologies lamellaires par pressionen milieu froid

    Sur les traces des premiers débitages par pression (Hokkaïdō, Sibérie, Alaska)

    No full text
    International audienc

    Challenging current perspectives on Late Pleistocene stone toolkits across Beringia through use-wear analysis

    No full text
    International audienceMicroblade technologies are a structuring component of the Late Pleistocene archaeology across the Bering Strait because of their wide chronological and geographical extension. To fully understand the techno-economical strategies underlying the success of this innovative toolkit in periglacial environments, this presentation proposes a macro-regional techno-functional comparison of contexts yielding early microblade components on Hokkaïdo (Pirika), in Eastern Siberia (Kovrizhka IV) and in Interior Alaska (Swan Point). Use-wear data allow defining how tools were implemented (gesture, worked materials, hafting) and managed (sharpening, reuse, multiple uses, recycling, transport). Specific tool categories such as endscrapers were specialized in a task and had long biographies, while microblades were multipurpose tools with short lifetimes. Their high standardization and overproduction may have aimed at a fast and easy maintenance of composite tools. Chaînes opératoires were segmented at different steps (e.g., tools production and use, hide processing), facilitating the mobility of groups. These data show that in the contexts considered, the anticipation of needs was an important feature of the life of nomadic societies of hunter-gatherers
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