Journal
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 497-506Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.06.042
Keywords
Early Middle Palaeolithic; Use-wear; Spear points; Butchering knives; Hafting
Funding
- Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS)
- Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO)
- University of Leuven
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Results are presented from the functional analysis of a large selection of tools from level IIa of the early Middle Palaeolithic site of Biache-St-Vaast (France). Results indicate that the site represents a hunting stand with a strong focus on hunting and animal processing activities, next to a maintenance component that appears to concern retooling and repair activities in preparation of the hunting episode(s). In spite of the site's age, a large part of the tool assemblage proves to have been used while hafted. Expertise in hafting was even quite elaborate in the sense that it includes tools for which hafting is not essential. It confirms the importance of hafting studies for improving insights into assemblage variability and past human behaviour. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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