ARCH 131 Lecture : week 10 Lecture Notes Unit 10.1(con't) and Unit 11.1(full)
9 Nov 2011
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These notes are a continuation of the section 10. 1 notes posted the week before. Mode 3: prepared core technology (400k-40k years ago) Levallois technology (most famous form of prepared core) Provide a certain level of standardization in flake products. Can provide products with specific shapes: long narrow blades, triangular points. Produce flakes with increased edge length to raw material volume (economical of raw material) Are versatile one can modify the technique to suit end-product needs or raw material shapes. Involves delayed returns and so represents forethought and planning (but so did. Advantages: more cutting edge per raw material volume easier to modify into specific shapes much more like a modern knife. Associated with the late stone age in africa, really common 40,000 years ago. Very small blades -microliths are placed onto shaft with resin, this is called a. If any pieces break off the composite tool, it can be replaced with another one.
