Davidson, Iain et al.: The origins of bone tool technologies: "Retouching the Palaeolithic: Becoming Human and the Origins of Bone Tool Technology" Conference at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, Germany, 21.- 23. October 2015, edited by Jarod M. Hutson et al., Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2018 (RGZM – Tagungen, Volume 35). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.408.590
Jarod M. Hutson (Ed.), Alejandro García-Moreno (Ed.), Elisabeth S. Noack (Ed.), Elaine Turner (Ed.), Aritza Villaluenga (Ed.), Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (Ed.)
The origins of bone tool technologies
"Retouching the Palaeolithic: Becoming Human and the Origins of Bone Tool Technology" Conference at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, Germany, 21.- 23. October 2015
This volume is a collection of papers from the conference titled “Retouching the Palaeolithic: Becoming Human and the Origins of Bone Tool Technology” held in October 2015 at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, Germany. With major funding from the Volkswagen Foundation’s Symposia and Summer School initiative, the conference brought together an international group of scientists from an array of research backgrounds to explore the origins and development of bone tool technologies in prehistory, specifically retouchers, compressors and percussors used in various lithic knapping activities. The diverse conference attendance generated an assortment of perspectives on bone tool use covering western Europe to the Levant, from the Lower Palaeolithic to Neolithic times. Collectively, these papers provide an overview on how the integration of bone tools with other Palaeolithic technologies influenced human subsistence and other socio-economic behaviours over time and space. In the end, this volume is not just about bone tools. Rather, this compilation is intended to stimulate broader ideas on technology and innovation, for the ability and desire to create new tools truly lies at the core of what makes us human.
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Jarod M. Hutson, Alejandro García-Moreno, Elisabeth S. Noack, Elaine Turner, Aritza Villaluenga, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
The Origins of Bone Tool Technologies
An Introduction
1-4
Iain Davidson
Touching language origins again
how worked bone shaped our understanding
5-13
Millán Mozota
Experimental Programmes with Retouchers
Where Do We Stand and Where Do We Go Now?
15-32
Jordi Rosell, Ruth Blasco, Ignacio Martin-Lerma, Ran Barkai, Avi Gopher
When Discarded Bones Became Important
New Bone Retouchers from the Lower Sequence of Qesem Cave, Israel (ca. 300-420 ka)
