New Contents - Living Past

New contents are available in the Lithic Technology section of the magazine Living Past.

the way in which the biface was used to saw wood

The article 'Macro and microscopic wear analysis of the non-worked lateral edge of a large biface' by Proffitt and Zupancich, illustrates the results of an interesting experimentation. The authors' aim was to undertake a wear analysis on the non worked lateral edge of a stationary partially buried handaxe used to process wood.

The work involved the production of a large biface and its use as a stationary object resting on surface made up of sediment. Afterwards, the authors carried out a macro and microscopic wear analysis of the non-worked lateral edge.

Last Updated (Thursday, 27 October 2011 16:17)

 

New Contents - Dissertations Archive

New contents are available in the Dissertations Archive Section.

The M.A. dissertation of Davide D'Errico shows the results da0011of an interesting study carried out on the use-wear produced by plant processing on flint tools from the two Italian Neolithic contexts of Masseria Candelaro (Foggia) and Fondo Azzollini (Brindisi) and from the site of Çayönü, eastern Anatolia (Turkey).

One of the most important results is the indentification of tools that were utilised only for wild cereals processing in the site of Çayönü, conferming the possibility of utilising this methodology to study the process of domestication of plant in a variety of archaeological situations around the World.

Last Updated (Thursday, 20 October 2011 09:33)

 

Use-Wear 2012 - International conference on Use-Wear analysis - 10|11|12 – Faro, Portugal


1. Call for contributed paper and posters

Individual submissions formats:

a) Contributed paper – these are submitted individually by the presenter, referring

other authors if that is the case. Each presentation will take 20 minutes.

Presentations may be made in English and French. Proceedings will be

published just in English.

b) Contributed poster – this contribution is particularly appropriate for research

results that can be described graphically. Posters are especially encouraged and

particularly effective for presentations communicating quantitative data.

posters are submitted individually by the presenter and grouped by the Scientific

Board around a specific theme into a poster session. Each poster can have a

maximum dimension of A0 (portrait) paper size.

Both contributed paper and poster will be published in the proceedings book.

2. Submission information

Title of the paper or poster

Name of the authors, institution, email and address

Keywords (maximum 5 words)

Abstract (maximum 1100 characters)

Online registration: www.usewear2012.com

3. Participation limit

Each participant can only contribute as first author only in two roles (e.g.,

contributed paper and poster, two contributed papers or posters) in the entire

4. Registration payment

All participants need to pay the registration. The exceptions are the members of the

scientific board and special invited speakers. The period of registration will be open

at the Use-Wear 2012 website (www.usewear2012.com) after June 30th, 2012:

Online registration fee: 150€ (until September 30th)

During conference fee: 175€

5. Deadlines

Submission of contributed papers and posters: until January 30th, 2012.

Announcement of the accepted papers and poster: June 30th, 2012.

Publication of the Use-Wear 2012 preliminary program: June 30th, 2012.

Online registration: from June 30th to September 30th

6. Contact

Secretariado do Use-Wear 2012

Universidade do Algarve

Campus de Gambelas

8005 Faro, Portugal

Tel. 289 800 908

Fax. 289 818 560

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http://www.usewear2012.com

Last Updated (Thursday, 06 October 2011 14:54)

 

Archaeological Software - New links

A number of interesting links have been added to the new link category Archaeological Software.
Let's take a look here and... please, let us know about further useful links and websites.
 

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