‘Prehistoric Technology’ 40 years later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy: Proceedings of the International Congress Verona (Italy) 20-23 April 2005: Proceedings of the International Congress Verona (Italy) 20-23 April 2005

This book includes papers from the congress: Prehistoric Technology 40 Years Later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy held in Verona (Italy), 20-23 April 2005. Sessions: Methodology (seven contributions); Hunter-Gatherers (nine contributions); Food Producers (eight contributions); Complex Polities (six contributions); Burial Context (six contributions); Posters (thirty-two contributions); Round Table (eight contributions). Cover Title Copyright Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction ORAL SESSION 5.1. Methodology S.A. Semenov and new perspectives on the experimental-traceological method Comprehensive analysis of prehistoric tools and its relevance for paleo-economic reconstructions The contribution of ethno-archaeological macro- and microscopic wear traces to the understanding of archaeological hide-working processes Functional analysis of grinding stones: the blind-test contribution SEM functional analysis and the mechanism of microwear formation In the knapper’s hands: identifying handedness from lithic production and use Kinematics in use-wear traces: an attempt of characterization through image digitalisation 5.2. Hunter-Gatherers Hafting traces on flint tools Subsistence strategies at Zengpiyan, South China Use-wear analysis of retouched lithic tools from the Abric Romaní Middle Palaeolithic site (Barcelona, Spain) Typology, technology and use-wear: the necessary integration. An example from the Aurignacian site of San Cassiano (Arezzo, central Italy) Functional analysis of the backed tools coming from the Gravettian layers 23 and 22 of Paglicci Cave (Foggia, Italy) Bilancino, a specialized site for “latent technology”: an integrated approach The complexity of an Epigravettian site viewed from use-wear traces. Insights for settlement dynamics in the Italian eastern Alps The relationship between coastal and inland settlements in Mesolithic South-East Norway. An experimental approach The functional significance of Sauveterrian microlithic assemblages: broadening the focus of investigation 5.3. Food Producers Stone axes as cultural markers: technological, functional and symbolic changes in bifacial tools during the transition from hunter-gatherers to sedentary agriculturalists in the southern Levant Mortar versus grinding-slabs function in the context of the neolithization process in the Near East Economic efficiency of Meso-Eneolithic settlements in southern Caucasus: the results of the traceological analysis of stone instruments Harvesting technology during the Neolithic in South-West Europe Activities on 7 Early Neolithic houses belonging to Darion in Belgium. First results of lithic use-wear analysis Looking for prehistoric basketry and cordage using inorganic remains: the evidence from stone tools Toolkits and technological choices at the Middle Neolithic site of Schipluiden, The Netherlands The role of techno-functional analysis of flint assemblages for the interpretation of internal arrangement of Eneolithic dwellings in the Vyatka river basin (Kirov Oblast, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia) 5.4. Complex Polities Lithic perspectives on metallurgy: an example from Copper and Bronze Age South-East Iberia The use of metal tools in the production of bone artefacts at two Bronze Age sites of the south-western Balkans: a preliminary assessment Use-wear traces on bone remains from Later Prehistoric settlements Towards a global functional analysis Anchor axes: a case-study of wear traces analysis on ethno-archaeological stone tools from Brazil. Manufacture and use of stone tools in the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. The analysis of the last phase of the shell midden KH-4 at Karoline (250-350 cal. AD) 5.5 Burial Context From traces to function of ornaments: some Neolithic examples Use-wear analysis of long blades. Funeral contexts of the Neolithic-Chalcolithic in North-East Iberia Signs of deliberate damage on the weapons from Altay Neolithic burials Projectile points as signs of violence in collective burials during the 4th and the 3rd millennia cal. BC in the North-East of the Iberian peninsula Sacrificial stone knives from Abusir Functional analysis as a tool for the interpretation of mortuary practices. A case-study from the Corded Ware Culture graves at Zielona, southern Poland POSTER SESSION 6.1. Methodology Identification of anthropic and non-anthropic traces on the osteological remains of Contrada Stretto-Partanna (Trapani, western Sicily, Italy): layers 1-16 Cooking and firing, on heated sandstone: an experimental approach by SEM An experimental approach to formation of use-wear traces on quartzite tools The bone mattock from the Mesolithic site of Plawienko 31 (Pomerania, Poland). Use-wear analysis and experimental method for determination of function and manufacturing processes Tracing traces from present to past. The use of shell, flint and stone artefacts on Morel and Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, FWI Experimental testing with polished green stone axes and adzes: technology and use Bone tools use-wear analysis and image analysis: test of 3D digital restoration of worked and used surfaces Barbed and tanged arrowhead of extra-Cantabrian Solutrean: experimental progamme Food preparation traces in ceramics. Functional interpretation of pots and jugs from Sant’Antimo (Piombino– Central Italy) based on organic residues 6.2. Hunter-Gatherers The bone assagaies of Grotta Continenza (Trasacco, L’Aquila, Italy): technological and microscopic analysis Stone Tools and Early Agriculture at Kuk Swamp, Papua New Guinea Villa Ladronaia: a Middle Palaeolithic site near Cecina (Livorno, Italy) Hunting, what? Early Mesolithic backed points in north-eastern Italy Payre (Ardèche, France) early Middle Palaeolithic site. An example of macroscopic traces on tools and flakes: utilization as side-scrapers and stone tips (hand implements, projectile points) in an OIS 5 human occupation Functional inferences of flint implements of the Mousterian site at La Mouline (St. Astier, Dordogne, France) Blade technology of the eastern Bromme (Podol culture, Valdai Uplands). Allerød- Dryas III (11.8 – 10.2 ka) Engraved stones from the San Bartolomeo Upper Palaeolithic flint workshop (Abruzzo, central Italy) Perforated bone plates and string production in the Mesolithic: a case-study from site Stanovoye 4, Upper Volga 6.3 Food Producers Sickles of early farmers of Azerbaijan Production and function(s) of obsidian tools at the Neolithic site of Contrada Diana (Aeolian Islands, Sicily) Neolithic bone needles and vegetal fibres working: experimentation and use-wear analysis Eneolithic flint workshop-settlements in north-eastern Bulgaria Cereal harvesting and processing at the Middle Neolithic site of Schipluiden, a coastal site in the Lower-Rhine basin The Neolithic settlement of Lugo di Grezzana (Verona, Italy). A lessinic flint emporium Use wear analysis: application on the Ripatetta lithic industry. Preliminary results Functional analysis of tools used in ancient ceramic production 6.4 Complex Polities Microwear analysis and metal tools. The study of use wears traces and the contribution to the understanding of protohistoric societies The so called “selci strane di Breonio”: an ethno-archaeological and social case in the Lessini Mountains (Verona) Stone vase drilling in Bronze Age Crete The lock of heaven’s doors 6.5 Burial Context Stone Age burial sites in eastern Tatarstan: use-wear and technological analyses of the flint assemblages Ethno-historical analogies and functional contexts: grinding/pestling tools from the Iron Age site of Monte Loffa (Verona, Italy) 7. Round Table From East to West; functional analysis and the analogical reasoning.A reflection on scinetific practice Technician or researcher? A visual answer One who had never been false to himself A story of the missing chapter: Sergey Semenov and his discovery From production traces to social organisation: Towards an epistemology of functional analysis Tool functions and ethnographical analogies S.A. Semenov and his outstanding discovery in 20th century archaeology Experimental archaeology: the Italian experience Typology, function, use-wear and context: where is the common vision? 9. Functional analysis: Lewis Binford and his contribution THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC 8. Recalling friends List of participants

Papers from the congress: Prehistoric Technology 40 Years Later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy held in Verona (Italy), 20-23 April 2005. Sessions: Methodology (seven contributions); Hunter-Gatherers (nine contributions); Food Producers (eight contributions); Complex Polities (six contributions); Burial Context (six contributions); Posters (thirty-two contributions); Round Table (eight contributions).