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Using the technological approach to characterize human behaviour from archaeological remains

Éva David

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I will describe the technological approach, developped by the French School since the end of the 90ies, as a scientific mean for characterizing human behaviour towards the practical use of osseous material. The analyzing of the Mesolithic Norwegian archaeological collections that have recently been revisited by the author serves as a working case. As, some of these Norwegian series are completely new, recently excavated by Knut Andreas Bergsvik (University Bergen), their description provides a new illustration of prehistoric practices. The analysis proceed to the identification of craft throughout the tools, morphologies and chaînes opératoires of manufacture, and the characterization of skills via the patterning of the products and that of the production when made of osseous material (bone, tooth, shell). Thanks to these both, and considering this production within the Late Mesolithic context (ca. 7900 to 6200 BP), the Norwegian material shows the use of a specific know-how for a regular fishing activity throught several centuries. Together with the other data from the considered period, this tradition can be linked to a use of the landscape that eventually pinpoints to a residential mobility of the last prehistoric fishermen´s populations in South-Western Norway.
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halshs-03922646 , version 1 (04-01-2023)

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Éva David. Using the technological approach to characterize human behaviour from archaeological remains. 9th ICAZ-WBRG Meeting, X. Ma, Apr 2013, Zhengzhou, China. pp.1-13. ⟨halshs-03922646⟩
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