Technological and behavioural complexity in expedient industries: The importance of use-wear analysis for understanding flake assemblages

• Main Authors: Fuentes, Riczar, Ono, Rintaro, Nakajima, Naoki, Nishizawa, Hiroe, Siswanto, Joko, Aziz, Nasrullah, Sriwigati, Sofian, Harry Octavianus, Miranda, Tatiana, Pawlik, Alfred
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Island Southeast Asia; Maritime interaction; Palaeoenvironments; Lithic use-wear analysis; Prehistoric plant working; Hafting technology; Anthropology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/16; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440319301037#!
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Expedient lithic technology has been described as unchanging and without or very limited presence of formal tool types. However, this premise seems to limit the discussion on technological and behavioural complexity when studying amorphous flake industries. To address this issue, we employed multi-s...