Virtual and integrated approaches applied for the analysis of late Neanderthal knapping technologies (Dr Davide Delpiano, University of Ferrara)
1:00pm - 2:00pm /
Thursday 3rd December 2020
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- Lucy Timbrell
- Admission: Free. Registration is required to attend this webinar.
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Stone tools represent the main technological objective produced by hunter-gatherers with the aim of fulfilling their daily needs. The tool allowed the human species to emancipate from the nature-imposed constraints, and to find a solution in respect to the deficiencies of their body, unable to efficiently perform the most primary functions such as the processing of animal or mineral resources. Through the study of stone tools, it is possible to reconstruct the steps of technological progress during Palaeolithic and human evolution.
Lithic specialists, over the years, developed different analytical methods for the study of lithic assemblages: In particular, approaches that integrate data from different methods permitted a higher interpretative level of human technological production during Palaeolithic. Moreover, modern digital technologies have offered new possibilities in the field of qualitative and quantitative statistical analyses applied to lithic tools.
Here Davide will present case studies of how integrated approaches can be useful for prehistoric lithic research, taking as an example the debated final phase of the Middle Palaeolithic and the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic in central-southern Europe. The archaeological variety of the lithic assemblages and the technological repertoire produced by late Neanderthals will be addressed in order to understand the triggering causes for their diversified and in some ways “modern” behaviour.
Lithic specialists, over the years, developed different analytical methods for the study of lithic assemblages: In particular, approaches that integrate data from different methods permitted a higher interpretative level of human technological production during Palaeolithic. Moreover, modern digital technologies have offered new possibilities in the field of qualitative and quantitative statistical analyses applied to lithic tools.
Here Davide will present case studies of how integrated approaches can be useful for prehistoric lithic research, taking as an example the debated final phase of the Middle Palaeolithic and the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic in central-southern Europe. The archaeological variety of the lithic assemblages and the technological repertoire produced by late Neanderthals will be addressed in order to understand the triggering causes for their diversified and in some ways “modern” behaviour.