Hammerstones with angle fracture usually present an unmodified holding surface, whilst the opposite area is covered by battered ridges broken during the percussion process. 9b), Figure 9 - A) Example of a hammerstone with fracture angles from FC West Main Floor, classified originall, Figure 9 - A) Exemple de percuteur à angles de fracture de FC West Main Floor, classifié à l’origine comme chopper par Leakey (1971). Leiden, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, p. 153-167. Dating as far back as 2.6 million years ago, the Oldowan tools were likely manufactured by … Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Over the last decade, a central focus of drug discovery efforts has been the incorporation of in vitro testing models that better mimic in vivo conditions found within the target patient. ), Préhistoire Africaine, Mélanges au Doyen Lionel Balout. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/paleo/1877 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/paleo.1877, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. 1997). 1996), and the analysis of Olduvai collections (Bunn 1982, 1986, 1989; Blumenschine 1995; Shipman 1989), have focused on marks produced on the bones by the tools, but not on the modifications on the stone tools during their use. Considering Willoughby’s proposal (1987) on the positive correlation in the representation of spheroids and anvils in the Olduvai sequence, Texier and Roche (1995) make an observation that echoes Clark’s (1955) conclusions; to control the effectiveness of percussion when shaping spheroids, the best option is to work the polyhedron on a hard surface: thus, percussion becomes bipolar due to the effect of the active hammerstone and the anvil. All Bone Clones, Sawyer & Maley Neanderthal Reconstruction, MS-201-SET Set of 6 Fossil Hominid Tools from East Africa, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences. Actes de la IIe session. As a result of this whole process, the surface of the block (C) between sides A and B is also modified, and numerous step and plunging scars are caused all around the periphery of the block. CHAVAILLON J. All items sold on this website are reproductions (replicas). 21) support this suggestion, since there is an overlapping of hammerstone and spheroid sizes. All Bone Clones® products are made in the USA. Nonetheless, the aim of categorizing types of percussion fragments is to underline their morphological variability and to stress the classificatory problems, which could lead to catalogue by-products generated spontaneously from the anvils as flakes and flake fragments (Leakey 1971). SAHNOUNI M., SCHICK K., TOTH N. 1997 - An Experimental Investigation into the Nature of Faceted Limestone « Spheroids » in the Early Palaeolithic. The Oldowan and African early Acheulean defined in Olduvai have always been considered as a paradigm to assess the technological skills of Plio-Pleistocene hominids. to enable stone tool making • Supported by recent discovery of bone digging tools • But, digging sticks could have been made by Homo, whose ... • Was the fossil hand bone Au. Journal of Archaeological Science, 12, p. 101-120. Journal of Anthropological Research, 47, p. 153-176. However, the similarity is only morphological, for hammerstones with fracture angles show features that are not related to the principles of conchoidal fracture: there are no impact points on the negatives, nor do such impact points stem from the edge of the piece but from the central part of the negative. Préhistoire Anthropologie Méditerranéennes, 6, p. 201-210. 1a-) and passive percussion elements (hard pieces that receive the force transmitted by another item, either to modify the transmitter object – fig. In: G. L. Isaac et E. R. McCown (Eds. Those by-products share a number of features: first, they usually show battering marks on their dorsal sides. 49Long ago, Desmond Clark (1955) pointed out that the spheroid phenomenon is found all across Africa and ranges over an extended period of time, which starts at the Olduvai sites and continues throughout the Acheulean and the Middle Stone Age. There are two patterns within the group of hammerstones with fracture angles. 1999 - Tool-using strategies by early hominids at Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Chavaillon (1979) subdivided the hammerstones and battered cobbles group into active hammerstones (which generally have a regular, oval or rounded shape) and passive hammerstones. 9a) or even to natural processes (fig. In L. Balout (Ed. 2004 - Studies on the Early Paleolithic site of Melka Kunture, Ethiopia. According to Leakey (Leakey & Roe 1994), this type of anvils is rarely found in Beds III and IV, where pitted anvils predominate. This is not the case in any of the analysed assemblages at Olduvai, in which the chopper-type cores usually show undamaged knapping edges (. 38Going back to Olduvai, Jones (1994-p. 276-277) also provides convincing morphometric arguments, as he demonstrates that it is unlikely for subspheroids to come from polyhedrons; upon analysing the size of both samples, subspheroids are generally larger than polyhedrons, hence subspheroids could not have been produced during a later reduction sequence. These were characterised as lacking artificial shaping but showing some evidence of utilisation, such as chipping, blunting of the edges, smashing and battering. Consequently, it can be proposed that the production of tools (i.e. Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt : Ground Stone Tools, Rock-Cut Installations and Stone Vessels from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, Paperback by Squitieri, Andrea (EDT); Eitam, David (EDT), ISBN 1789690609, ISBN-13 9781789690606, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book focusses on ground stone tools, stone … Such fractures are generated by percussive processes; when hitting an item with the hammerstone, the active element is fractured, producing orthogonal planes and irregular ridges. 1995; Texier & Roche 1995). As shown in Figure 16, the volume of raw material linked to percussion processes in some sites like TK, FC West or FLK North (all levels) exceeds knapping activities. 54Usually, negatives on plane C coincide with the battering on the edges of platforms A and/or B. Cahier Noir, 7, p. 31-40. 50Passive hammerstones or anvils, i.e. New Jersey, Prentice Hall, p. 429-449. 67Figure 19 also shows that in Middle-Upper Bed II, except for EF-HR, different modalities of battering items accompany classic hammerstones. Figure 11 - Example of a quartz cobble with a cortical surface modified by battering from FC WestFigure 11 - Exemple de galet de quartz de FC West présentant une surface corticale modifiée par percussion. ), Bone modification. Although we have no descriptions of the anvils resulting from anvil-chipping technique experiments, which up to now have been focused on the analysis of cores and flakes (Shen & Wang 2000), it is unlikely that the Olduvai anvils were related to that activity; in Oldowan sites such as FLK North, flakes are always small sized, and in Acheulean assemblages such as TK, large flakes seem to have been detached by direct percussion with a hard hammerstone. ), Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site, III: The Earlier Cultures: Middle and Earlier Stone Age. 15The main requisite of hammerstones used for stone knapping is that the area of the piece that came into contact with the core maintains a compact and homogeneous structure. or H.? Other quantitative tests (i.e. Leakey 1971; Chavaillon 1979; Isaac et al. Leakey 1971), over the last decades it has been questioned that choppers are standardised artefacts, being proposed that these items were just cores used to detach flakes (Isaac 1986; Toth 1985, etc). Man, 11, p. 176-187. Bulletin de la Societé Préhistorique Française, 76, p. 230-233. Conversely, ridges from hammerstones with fracture angles are caused by percussion activities, with irregular, battered and stepped scars. In G. N. Bailey et P. Callow (Eds. 20). 17Selection of lava cobbles as hammerstones is not the only pattern noticeable throughout the Olduvai sequence. In K. W. Butzer et G. L. Isaac (Eds. 5Regular knapping activities require the use of a hammer (be it hard or soft, direct or indirect, etc) that hits another item in order to modify its morphology and / or obtain a product. At Olduvai, there are tools in different stages of use that allow reconstructing technical gestures embodied in the shaping of spheroid morphologies. 2002; etc). However, it is difficult to assess this hypothesis for sites such as FLK North or TK, since their anvils do not show the typical pits described at Melka Kunturé (Chavaillon & Chavaillon 1976) or Gesher Benot Ya´aqov (Goren-Inbar et al. They usually are thin fragments that present wide and short morphologies, with no butt, bulb or ridges on their dorsal face (group 2.1). KYARA O. A. 10). This tool is a common object at many sites at Olduvai Gorge in East Africa, but there is no agreement on its use. A mathematical modelling tool for predicting survival of individual. London: Weindenfeld and Nicolson. There is a maximum size ranging between 70-80 mm (fig. It has been proposed that the hammerstone is the key piece to distinguish between the way humans and other animals use tools, since only the former consider the hammerstone as an intermediary tool used to obtain another artefact (the flake), whilst in ethologic contexts, the hammerstone is used directly for individual tasks –to break a nut, an egg, etc. CAPALDO S. D., BLUMENSCHINE R. J. 10Despite some differences in each classification system, all the typologies mentioned above coincide in distinguishing two main groups among the percussion material, i.e. 7b) seems to indicate that it was precisely these natural angles created by percussion which were used to perform the task. However, many of the so-called quartz polyhedrons are actually hammerstones with natural fracture angles and do not present scars that could link them to débitage or façonnage activities. BLUMENSCHINE R. J. Therefore, Olduvai polyhedrons and subspheroids/ spheroids could not be consecutive stages of the same chaîne opératoire, since raw materials used in the production of each artefact type are different. Other quantitative tests (i.e. 3In the context of this table ronde “Entre le marteau et l´enclume,” and in order to describe technological strategies different from the classic direct hard-hammer percussion, we focus on the utilised materials (Leakey 1971) or pounded pieces (Isaac et al. 47 As stated above, genuine lava polyhedrons are linked to stone tool … American Antiquity, 59, p. 724-748. First, in some of the items the battered section is located along a large surface altered by orthogonally fractured ridges (fig. (left to right): end chopper, heavy-duty scraper, spheroid hammer stone, flake chopper; bone point, horn core tool … In G. L. Isaac (Ed. 1992). Oxford : Oxford University Press. and 733 gr. Flake/Core/Spheroid Stone Tools - Flake = chip off of stone for shaping - Core = center of stone as foundation - Spheroid = hammer stone- ... earliest (2.6- 1.2 m.y.a ) stone tools, sharp flakes struck … Types of percussion recorded at Olduvai and the most relevant features of the anvils, hammerstones and by-products are systematized. Willoughby (1987) also suggests that spheroid forms could have been hammers associated to anvils, since according to her there is a correlation between the frequencies of both types of tools in the Olduvai sequence. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 34-65. de BEAUNE S. 2004 - The Invention of Technology: Prehistory and Cognition. Binford 1984; Bunn 1989; Capaldo & Blumenschine 1994; Blumenschine & Selvaggio 1991; Madrigal & Blumenschine 2000). SCHICK K. D., TOTH N. 1994 - Early Stone Age Technology in Africa: a Review and Case Study into the Nature and Function of Spheroids and Subspheroids. Finally, we shall reflect on the functionality of anvils. Furthermore, fracturing and battering all over the anvils’ surfaces do not respond to the typical damage caused by the bipolar technique (i.e. BOESCH C., BOESCH H. 1993 - Diversity of tool use and tool-making in wild chimpanzees. Thus, there is an intentional selection of specific lavas when choosing hammerstones. Potts (1988), for example, pointed out the low number of battered artefacts in Olduvai Bed I, and therefore considered bone marrow processing activities irrelevant (Potts 1988-p. 238; contra Binford 1984). In recent decades, discussions over the analysis and interpretation of spherical forms in the Early Stone Age continued, considering both the analysis of archaeological assemblages (e.g. Even though they could ultimately be used for the same tasks as other spheroids, the morphological genesis process is different to that of tabular blanks, since quartz cobbles have a naturally rounded shape (fig. 1Mary Leakey (1971) divided the Olduvai Bed I & II lithic assemblages into four main categories: tools, utilised material, débitage and unmodified items (the so-called manuports). Behavioural Ecology and Evolution. Your browser does not support JavaScript! Journal of Human Evolution, 15, p. 673-690. knapping activities), as pointed out by experimental studies (i.e. 53As aforementioned, Leakey (1971) referred to shaped anvils in the Developed Oldowan, in which the flat upper and lower surfaces of blocks would be accompanied by flaking of the circumference. Thus, the fact that battering marks appear on the ridges (fig. Leakey 1971, 1975). Figure 8 - Détail d’arêtes intactes de choppers de FLK North. Figure 8 - Detail of the intact ridges of choppers from FLK North. Such items are just fragments that have come detached by the battering (hence the damage traces on their dorsal faces). They represent what we call the first step (stage 1) of use of the quartz blocks, and include the various types of hammerstones with fracture angles described above. ), Cultural beginnings: approaches to understanding early hominid lifeways in the African savannah. The word artifact can refer to almost anything found at an archaeological site, including everything from landscape patterns to the tiniest of trace elements clinging to a potsherd: all stone tools … 46Regarding those items that really experience shape modification (i.e. Tervuren, Belgie Annalen, Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, p. 81-108. Upper Paleolithic tool assemblages include end scrapers, burins (chisel like stones for working bone and ivory), bone points, ivory beads, tooth necklaces, and abstract animal or human figurines. Chavaillon & Chavaillon 1981; Jones 1994; Toth 2001; Kleindienst & Keller 1976). 1983. In many of the so-called polyhedrons, the supposed flake extractions do not show negative bulbs, or such concavities are located on the central part of the scar, negatives present impossible angles, natural ridges, etc (fig. Stratigraphy, Ecology, and Cultural Change in the Middle Pleistocene. L´Anthropologie, 97, p. 51-68. Journal of Human Evolution, 37, p. 807-831. However, after the formal definition of choppers (e.g. 33Willoughby (1987), as did Leakey (1971), argued that spheroids and similar forms are diagnostic markers between different cultural facies at Olduvai, pointing out their high frequency during the Developed Oldowan B (sensu Leakey 1971). 2000 - Preferential Processing of High Return Rate Marrow Bones by Oldowan Hominids: a Comment on Lupo. As stated above, genuine lava polyhedrons are linked to stone tool knapping and generally have no battering traces. Excavations and analyses at Ain Hanech, Algeria. Percentages of tool types throughout the Beds I and II sequence show interesting patterns. 2). . 72A number of authors have studied the lithic industries of the Olduvai sequence (i.e. The essential difference is that core edges from choppers are created by intentional knapping processes aimed to obtain flakes, and do not present traces of battering or use. According to Leakey (1971), spheroids and subspheroids were intentionally shaped, but Isaac and his collaborators believed they were simple hammerstones. ), Early Human Behavior in Global Context. DE LA, MORA R. 2005 – Technological strategies in the Lower Pleistocene at Olduvai Beds I & II. 17), this is a common pattern among all lithic categories in Bed II, and is therefore not exclusive to the items involved in percussion activities (i.e. Schick & Toth 1994; Texier & Roche 1995; Sahnouni et al. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 24 : 179-192. Eventually, irregular edges are caused by pounding, and ridges finally become rounded again given the intensity of battering. Regular knapping activities require the use of a hammer (be it hard or soft, direct or indirect, etc) that hits another item in order to modify its morphology and / or obtain a product. 4This paper is based on the review of some of the assemblages excavated by Mary Leakey (1971) in Olduvai between 1960 and 1963 - FLK Zinj, DK and FLK North in Bed I, and FC West, TK Lower & Upper Floor, EF-HR and BK in Bed II - which are curated in the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi (tabl. Figure 11 - Example of a quartz cobble with a cortical surface mod, Figure 11 - Exemple de galet de quartz de FC West présentant une surface corticale modifiée par percussion. 1987 - Throwing and human evolution. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 58, p. 21-28. 65Focusing on more specific issues, it seems that Olduvai hominids used lavas and quartzes simultaneously as raw materials for their percussion activities. 1994 - Olduvai Gorge. This mismatch is not exclusive from Beds I & II, since Jones (1994) points out that many of the so-called subspheroids in Bed III, Bed IV and the Masek Beds were merely chunks or broken artefacts. The cuboid-spheroid stone is a well-known object, found in large numbers in the Iron Age sites of Israel. 20), at FLK North II (Deinotherium and Sandy Conglomerate Levels) -where spheroids are the most abundant category (47.5%) - anvils are scarce (9.1%). Paris : Dunod. MERRICK H. V. 1976 - Recent Archaeological Research in the Plio-Pleistocene Deposits of the Lower Omo, Southwestern Ethiopia. This work was funded by the Programa de Estancias Breves del Plan FPU of the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (Spain) and the Estades per a la Recerca a Fora de Catalunya 2001 (BEAI400198) of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Il est ainsi possible d´évaluer l´importance des activités de percussion par rapport aux opérations de taille dans certains assemblages, ce qui fournit des informations significatives concernant la fonction des sites en question. This re-analysis highlights the great amount and variety of stone tools linked to percussive activities. The description of Olduvai anvils Leakey made (1971-p. During the percussion process (see fig. Rise and Diversity of the Lower Paleolithic Record. Unpublished Ph.D. BUNN H. T. 1986 - Patterns of Skeletal Representation and Hominid Subsistence Activities at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and Koobi Fora, Kenya. Journal of Archaeological Science, 1996, p. 493-507. 73Part of this lack of attention towards percussion processes may be due to the problems inherent to studying quartz, and the ambiguity of many of its attributes (see Knight 1991; Bracco 1993; Mourre 1997). quartz tabular blocks), the process observed in Olduvai Bed II is the same as the one proposed by Schick and Toth (1994) and Jones (1994); quartz blocks, after being used as hammerstones, end up taking on a rounded, spherical shape. LEAKEY M. D. 1975 - Cultural Patterns in the Olduvai Sequence. Alimen 1963) and Eastern African Acheulean (i.e. When pounding items continue being used, battering spread all over the piece and ridges collapse, blunting the original facetted shape of quartz blocks. Circles indicate battering areasFigure 5 - Exemple d’un percuteur avec angles de fractures typique du site TK Upper Floor. KR Swanson *,1,2, RC Rostomily. Willoughby 1987; Sahnouni 1991, 1998; Jones 1994), and experimental replications (Schick & Toth 1994; Sahnouni et al. SCHICK K. D., TOTH N. 1993 - Making Silent Stones Speak. The newly-discovered stone tools belong to the Oldowan, the oldest-known stone tool industry.. TK Lower and Upper Floors) in length and 555 gr. Behaviour, 83, p. 265-286. 1997) supported a similar division, differentiating flaked pieces (cores and retouched tools), detached pieces (flakes and flake fragments), pounded items and unmodified stones. Jones (1994) highlighted that most of polyhedrons in both Beds I and II were manufactured from lavas, whilst spheroids and subspheroids were almost invariably made of quartz. 20), at FLK North II (Deinotherium and Sandy Conglomerate Levels) -where spheroids are the most abundant category (47.5%) - anvils are scarce (9.1%). fig. Other assemblages show lower percentages of classic hammerstones, like FC West (72.1%) and FLK North I (Levels 6-1) (63.2%), whilst at TK (both levels) they drop to 54.4%, and at FLK North II (Deinotherium Level and Sandy Conglomerate Level), the rate of classic hammerstones decreases to 40.4%. Under these premises, and assuming the distinction between active percussion elements (hard pieces that transmit a force intended to modify another item –. Therefore, some of the objects classified originally as spheroid artefacts are, in fact, naturally rounded pieces. 1996 - Evaluation of Technical Competence of Homo erectus in East Africa During the Middle Pleistocene. Consequently, there is a high degree of ambiguity embodied in the classification system proposed in this paper; still, we have tried to reduce inaccuracies as much as possible, by grounding our description of tool types on criteria such as the presence or absence of step and plunging fractures, pitting, battering, scars, bulbs, knapping platforms, shapes of dorsal and ventral sides, etc. Concerning the breakdown by raw materials, there is general preference for lavas as knapping hammerstones (Figure 18a). Unfortunately, our results are not very enlightening in this respect: although at FC West and TK there is a co-variation in both categories of items (fig. 1995 - Percussion marks, tooth marks, and experimental determinations of the timing of hominid and carnivore access to long bones at FLK Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. 1. In this case, their classification as by-products from percussion processes rather than from débitage is established given the irregularity of the dorsal face (which usually is battered but does not show scars from previous extractions), the sinuous concavity on the ventral face (rare on conchoidal fracture), and the thickness and irregularity of their edges. 59This classification of positives detached by percussion is based exclusively on their morphology, since the technological process generating all these by-products is actually the same: the gradual modification of anvils’ morphology due to battering during percussion activities. Le Brun-Ricalens 1989). If the ridges had also been used for the chopping activities the typological definition proposes, battering marks also should appear on the edges. BLUMENSCHINE R. J., MAREAN C. W., CAPALDO S. D. 1996 - Blind Tests of Inter-analyst Correspondence and Accuracy in the Identification of Cut Marks, Percussion Marks, an Carnivore Tooth Marks on Bone Surfaces. Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 63As occurs in the examples described in the Sahara (Alimen 1963) and ´Ubeidiya (Bar-Yosef & Goren-Inbar 1993), most of the battering on Olduvai anvils appears on the contact area between the horizontal (platforms A and B) and transversal planes (plane C). KUMAN K. 1998 - The earliest South African industries. EF-HR excluded given the low number of itemsB) Mean length of the different categories in some of the analysed sitesFigure 22 - A) Masse moyenne des différentes catégories dans plusieurs sites (à l’exclusion de EF-HR compte tenu du petit nombre de pièces)B) Longueur moyenne des différentes catégories dans certains des sites analysés. 27Regardless of the typological and even technological aspects involved in the manufacturing of choppers, the point is that, when these objects are used for heavy duty activities such as chopping wood or breaking bones, traces generated on the ridges are always visible and even conspicuous to the naked eye, as demonstrated by experiments (e.g. Blumenschine 2000 ) et al 1981 - Galets aménagés et nucleus du Paléolithique Inférieur question is whether the rounding these...: Précisions terminologiques dans les domaines de la Torre and Rafael Mora, a! ) associées à l´Acheuléen supérieur de l´Ougartien share a number of authors have studied the lithic assemblages four!, there are anvils that show battering marks also should appear on the ridges of choppers from North., another feature typical of percussive processes stone flakes from the second rock active!, Leakey ( 1971 ) divided the Olduvai sequence Human activities that is indicative of their Recognition from tabular blanks! 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