Plant processing experiments and use-wear analysis of Tabon Cave artefacts question the intentional character of denticulated stone tools in prehistoric Southeast Asia

• Main Authors: Pawlik, Alfred, Xhauflaira, Hermine, Jago-on, Sheldon, Vitalese, Timothy, Callado, John Rey, Tandang, Danilo, Palconit, Trishia, Manipon, Dante, Gaillard, Claire, Theodoropoulou, Angeliki, Revel, Nicole, Forestier, Hubert
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Southeast Asia; Plants Experiments; Ethnoarchaeology; Typology; Use-wear analysis; Late Pleistocene; Anthropology; Archaeological Anthropology; Biological and Physical Anthropology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/73; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=sa-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The presence of notches on European Palaeolithic flaked stone tools termed ‘denticulates’ has been variously ascribed to cultural, functional and taphonomic factors. In Southeast Asia prehistoric stone tool assemblages are dominated by unretouched flakes, so the rare retouched lithics, including den...