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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MUGURUK SITE, WESTERN KENYA (EAST AFRICA, PALEOLITHIC, PLEISTOCENE, STONE TOOLS, LITHIC TECHNOLOGY).

机译:肯尼亚西部穆古鲁克遗址的考古学(东非,古石,更新世,石材工具,岩性工艺)。

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At the end of the middle Pleistocene period in subsaharan Africa Homo erectus populations were replaced by archaic members of our own species, Homo sapiens. This work examines stone artifact manufacturing techniques from a stratified East African locality of this period, the Muguruk site.;Over 98% of the artifacts at Muguruk are manufactured in Miocene Ombo phonolite which crops out at the site. A radial technique of flake production remained essentially unchanged throughout the site's occupation, and a significant proportion of all three Muguruk assemblages contain a Levallois component. Differences between the Sangoan-Lupemban and Middle Stone Age are found in the kinds of retouch applied in tool manufacture, although retouched pieces make up only 1.9% of the total of 14,817 artifacts recovered at Muguruk. Scrapers and retouched flakes in the Sangoan-Lupemban also feature bifacial and alternate retouch, while artifacts in these categories from the Middle Stone Age samples rarely exhibit this feature.;Whether the makers of the Muguruk industries were late members of the species Homo erectus or early members of our own species is unknown. Their behavior indicates a deep conservatism in the retention of the radial flake production technique throughout the sequence, combined with innovativeness in the acceptance of new methods of formal artifact retouch.;Deposits at Muguruk consist of 12 meters of fluvial sediments which are broken by nine stratigraphic gaps and three episodes of soil development. Three major levels of artifact accumulation occur at Muguruk, one Sangoan-Lupemban and two Middle Stone Age. Bifaces, inlcuding large heavy handaxes and finely made lanceolate points, are present in the Sangoan-Lupemban assemblage, while these are absent from the Middle Stone Age samples.
机译:在撒哈拉以南非洲的中更新世末期,直立人的种群被我们自己物种的智人取代。这项工作研究了这一时期在东非分层地区Muguruk地点的石器制造工艺。Muguruk中超过98%的器物是在中新世Ombo棉铃石中制造的,并在该地点种植。在整个场地的整个使用过程中,放射状薄片生产技术基本上保持不变,并且所有三个Muguruk组件中很大一部分都包含Levallois成分。 Sangoan-Lupemban和中石器时代之间的差异在于工具制造中使用的润饰种类,尽管润饰件仅占穆古鲁克(Muguruk)回收的14,817件文物的1.9%。 Sangoan-Lupemban的刮板和修饰的薄片还具有双面修饰和交替修饰的功能,而来自中石器时代样本中这些类别的人工制品很少表现出此特征。; Muguruk工业的制造者是直立物种的晚期成员还是早期我们自己物种的成员是未知的。它们的行为表明在整个序列中保留了放射状薄片生产技术的高度保守性,并结合了接受正式人工制品修饰新方法的创新性。Muguruk的沉积物由12米的河流沉积物组成,被9个地层破碎差距和土壤发展的三个阶段。 Muguruk发生了三个主要级别的文物积累,一个是Sangoan-Lupemban,两个是中石器时代。在Sangoan-Lupemban组合中存在双面部,包括大笨重的斧头和精细的披针形尖端,而石器时代中期的样本中却没有。

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  • 作者

    MCBREARTY, SALLY ANN.;

  • 作者单位

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.;

  • 授予单位 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.;
  • 学科 Anthropology Archaeology.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1986
  • 页码 437 p.
  • 总页数 437
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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