Hunter Gatherer Research,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
9(1-2), P. 165 - 207
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Animal
acquisition,
butchering
and
processing
was
a
crucial
activity
continuum
in
the
subsistence
of
Lower
Palaeolithic
hunter-gatherers
bolstered
by
persistent
Acheulian
stone
toolkit.
Scrapers,
bifaces,
flakes
other
implements
were
successfully
used
during
carcass
manipulation,
entailing
functional
compatibility
with
prey
taxa
to
be
processed.
Major
changes
butchery
toolkit
occurred
late
Levant,
introduction
novel
lithic
trajectories
stemming
from
anchored
traditions.
This
paper
presents
two
innovations:
Quina-like
scrapers
flat
bifacial
knives.
Both
tool
types
emerge
at
different
pace
are
rarely
recognised
contexts.
However,
numerous
fully-fledged
Quina
for
hide
working
characteristic
proceeding
Acheulo-Yabrudian
Cultural
Complex
where
they
supplemented
limited
number
bifaces.
Changes
local
faunal
communities,
marked
decline
megaherbivore
availability,
may
have
accelerated
new
set
oriented
towards
effective
smaller-sized
ungulates,
habitual
pattern.
Dependency
on
animal-induced
calories
underlaying
human–animal
relationships
facilitated
development
acting
as
‘mediators’
between
humans
their
preferred
prey.
The
gradual
emergence
tools
signal
practical
ontological
adaptability
ecological
conditions
trophic
interactions
time
shifting
communities
highlight
paramount
role
cultural
evolution.
Hunter Gatherer Research,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 30
Published: Nov. 28, 2024
The
deep
time
record
indicates
that
hunting
played
a
key
role
in
human
evolution,
including
the
development
of
life
history
humans.
archaeological
preserves
many
different
avenues
for
understanding
early
gear,
butchered
prey,
and
art.
As
complex
skill,
likely
involved
long
learning
period
to
develop
competencies.
While
rare,
there
are
some
exceptional
circumstances
which
toys
tools
with
children
adolescents
learned
hunt
have
preserved.
In
cases
though,
we
rely
on
ethnographic
data
fill
gaps
past
children’s
tangible
intangible
culture
hunting,
how
they
developed
skills
would
allowed
them
their
communities
survive
thrive.
This
paper
reviews
relevant
records
activities
forager
adolescents,
explores
areas
where
see
commonalities
as
well
divergences
these
data.
Ethnographies
provide
‘real
world’
can
aspects
past,
while
has
its
own
unique
stories
tell.
Microscopy Today,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
32(6), P. 50 - 56
Published: Nov. 1, 2024
Abstract
Prehistoric
and
man-made
ancient
wooden
artifacts
are
continually
being
uncovered
from
anoxic
waterlogged
burial
environments
where
they
protected
highly
destructive
oxygen-dependent
wood-degrading
fungi.
Microscopy
has
played
a
crucial
role
in
understanding
why
such
valuable
buried
objects
remain
well
preserved
for
millennia.
Suitable
microscopy
techniques
have
revealed
that
under
conditions,
wood
is
attacked
mainly
by
erosion
bacteria,
which
adapted
to
functioning
environments,
but
the
speed
of
degradation
extremely
slow,
most
cases
resulting
only
surface
deterioration
even
after
thousands
years
objects.
The
information
emerging
studies
also
proving
more
precise
targeting
technology
development
adequately
conserve/restore
excavated
precious
human
benefit.
Hunter Gatherer Research,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
9(1-2), P. 165 - 207
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Animal
acquisition,
butchering
and
processing
was
a
crucial
activity
continuum
in
the
subsistence
of
Lower
Palaeolithic
hunter-gatherers
bolstered
by
persistent
Acheulian
stone
toolkit.
Scrapers,
bifaces,
flakes
other
implements
were
successfully
used
during
carcass
manipulation,
entailing
functional
compatibility
with
prey
taxa
to
be
processed.
Major
changes
butchery
toolkit
occurred
late
Levant,
introduction
novel
lithic
trajectories
stemming
from
anchored
traditions.
This
paper
presents
two
innovations:
Quina-like
scrapers
flat
bifacial
knives.
Both
tool
types
emerge
at
different
pace
are
rarely
recognised
contexts.
However,
numerous
fully-fledged
Quina
for
hide
working
characteristic
proceeding
Acheulo-Yabrudian
Cultural
Complex
where
they
supplemented
limited
number
bifaces.
Changes
local
faunal
communities,
marked
decline
megaherbivore
availability,
may
have
accelerated
new
set
oriented
towards
effective
smaller-sized
ungulates,
habitual
pattern.
Dependency
on
animal-induced
calories
underlaying
human–animal
relationships
facilitated
development
acting
as
‘mediators’
between
humans
their
preferred
prey.
The
gradual
emergence
tools
signal
practical
ontological
adaptability
ecological
conditions
trophic
interactions
time
shifting
communities
highlight
paramount
role
cultural
evolution.
