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Delpiano, Davide ORCID: 0000-0001-8950-1466, Gennai, Jacopo ORCID: 0000-0003-2662-2855 and Peresani, Marco ORCID: 0000-0001-6562-6336 (2021). Techno-Functional Implication on the Production of Discoid and Levallois Backed Implements. Lithic Technol., 46 (3). S. 171 - 192. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 2051-6185

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Abstract

The technological dichotomy between Discoid and Levallois methods, which accompanies the Mousterian assemblages for most of the Middle Paleolithic, is a debated topic because of the implications for Neanderthals' behavioral complexity. We here propose and discuss the possible reasons supporting the Levallois-Discoid shift, considering part of the late Mousterian sequence of Grotta di Fumane. Among these, we include the strategies of resource exploitation and territorial mobility, and the productivity and effectiveness rates between the two methods. Though both highlighting differences, these cannot justify a sharp change in production strategies. Looking specifically at the technological objectives, we compared a category of common products: the backed artefacts. This category includes similar tools, but morpho-functional differences suggest different degrees of efficiency. The comparison helped to better define the Discoid and Levallois technologies in their functional and potential objectives, whose variations may have influenced the alternating pattern in the technological choices here recorded.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Delpiano, Davide UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8950-1466 UNSPECIFIED Gennai, Jacopo UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-2662-2855 UNSPECIFIED Peresani, Marco UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6562-6336 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-583638
DOI:	10.1080/01977261.2021.1886487
Journal or Publication Title:	Lithic Technol.
Volume:	46
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 171 - 192
Date:	2021
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	2051-6185
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Anthropology; Archaeology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/58363