Looking for workshop areas at the Gravettian palimpsest site? An experimental approach

0566852 - ARÚB 2024 RIV CZ eng A - Abstract
Novák, Martin - Ourodová, A.-M. - Chlachula, Dominik
Looking for workshop areas at the Gravettian palimpsest site? An experimental approach.
EAA annual meeting, Budapest, Hungary. Abstract Book / 28. /. Prague: European Association of Archaeologists, 2022. s. 565. ISBN 978-80-88441-02-1.
[EAA annual meeting, Budapest, Hungary / 28. /. 31.08.2022-03.09.2022, Budapest]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-26094S
Keywords : experimental archaeology * flint knapping * spatial analysis * lithic distribution patterns
OECD category: Archaeology
https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2022/Programme.aspx?Program=3#Program

The contribution presents results of an experimental flint knapping to simulate archaeological situations and create the analytical analogy of latent distribution patterns of lithic reduction. Our study correlates the spatial distribution patterns of experimentally knapped flint assemblages with respect to various levels of the knappers’ experiences. The experimental design and protocol focus on obtaining blanks from an unprepared core, documentation of the scattered patterns of lithics, and recording the amount of waste created during the different sequences in lithic reduction. Our preliminary results confirm, for example, a direct correlation between knappers’ experiences and (a) the spatial distribution of knapping waste around them and (b) their efficiency in flint core exploitation. Finally, we built an essential comparative framework for studying lithic spatial distribution on the Gravettian sites from the Dolní Věstonice-Pavlov-Milovice settlement area.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0353220