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En este sitio podrás encontrar información introductoria y básica sobre
Mineralogía y Petrología pensada para estudiantes de Ciencias Naturales que sigan un
cursillo acelerado.
Asimismo, encontrarás información geoarqueológica sobre artefactos
algunos arqueológicos, y poco a poco irás encontrando más materiales
relacionados con la docencia y aplicaciones de la Mineralogía y la
Petrología.
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asignatura Análisis de Artefactos
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profesor.
Paradigma cerámico. De
Prof. Dr. Jorge Alberto Durán Suárez (UGR)
https://www.ugr.es/~giorgio/;
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9714-3555
Lithic artefacts represent some of the most numerous, enduring, and accessible archives of human history on the planet. These artefacts register technological choices, cognition, know-how, environmental engagement, and social processes in a single material domain. As such, lithic analysis can be used to directly address some of the grand challenges of anthropological archaeology (Kintigh et al. 2014).
Since its inception as a field of practice in the late 19th century, lithic analysis has formed the basis for building relative chronologies, tracked migration and group connectivity, assessed changes in cognition over time, and mapped past cultural geographies. However, the last 50 years have seen developments in absolute dating methods, genetics, isotopic and computational analyses that have marked important shifts in the study of human prehistory, providing direct insights to answer questions formerly addressed inferentially from stone artefact evidence. As a result, the role of the lithic specialist has been redefined and restructured. The significance of lithic technology in training and research programs has also shifted, prompting the development of novel exploratory approaches to lithic materials.
Much of this new research now focusses on the specifics of flaking systems at a technological level. Methods and schools of thought have also diversified across different regions (for instance in Europe, North America, and Australasia) offering substantial critiques of—and alternatives to—the classificatory systems and theories of stone tools established in the 19th century.
Given these historical developments, a central question needs to be addressed about lithic analysis and its role in the discipline, that is: how can lithics continue to contribute to a greater understanding of anthropological archaeology?
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Benjamin Utting, Isis Mesfin, Dylan Gaffney (2026)
What can lithics tell us about anthropological archaeology's grand challenges?
Archaeometry,
https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70155
What can lithics tell us about hominin
technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of
stone knapping via the emulation of Mother
Nature
Metin I. Eren, Stephen
J. Lycett, Michelle
R. Bebber, Alastair
Key, Briggs
Buchanan, Emma
Finestone, Joseph
Benson, Rebecca
Biermann Gürbüz, Adela
Cebeiro, Roman
Garba, Anne
Grunow, C.
Owen Lovejoy, Danielle
MacDonald, Erica
Maletic, G.
Logan Miller, Joseph
D. Ortiz, Jonathan
Paige, Justin
Pargeter, Tomos
Proffitt, Mary
Ann Raghanti, Teal
Riley, Jeffrey
I. Rose, David
M. Singer, Robert
S. Walker
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Pages: S8-S30
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First Published: 15
March 2025
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