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Paixão, Eduardo: Groundbreaking Technologies in the Middle Palaeolithic of the Levant: High-resolution and Multi-scale Functional Analysis of Ground Stone Tools, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 3). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1593

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07/02/2025

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Eduardo Paixão

Groundbreaking Technologies in the Middle Palaeolithic of the Levant

High-resolution and Multi-scale Functional Analysis of Ground Stone Tools

LEIZA Publications

The study of Ground Stone Tools (GST) is a key topic of research to understand major processes related to the evolution of human behaviour across time and space. These artefacts associated with e.g. percussive activities are the direct evidence for past human daily tasks and the oldest and most persistent durable technological strategy in human evolution.
The use of GST during the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant, during which this technology developed and diversified, is explored. Three distinct case studies are presented and the application of functional analysis shown, using a high-resolution multi-scale approach, combined with de development of dedicated controlled experiments.

Eduardo Paixão is currently a researcher at ICArEHB, Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour. Universidade do Algarve, Portugal, and at TraCEr (Traceology and Controlled Experiments), MONREPOS - Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, part of Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie, Germany. 
Paixão is specialized in use-wear analysis and controlled experiments on stone tools. His main research focuses on the functional study of stone tools from the Early Stone Age in Eastern Africa and the Middle Paleolithic in the Levant, including aspects of use and performance.

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Table of Contents
5-6
Acknowledgements
7
Introduction
9-17
Brief History of Research
19-23
Methods
25-37
Archaeological Sites
Selected Case Studies
39-44
Results
45-83
Discussion
85-91
Conclusion
93-94
Bibliography
95-105
Appendix
109-158

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