Limestone percussion tools from the late Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco Leon and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain).

ABSTRACT: In recent years, there is growing interest in the study of percussion scars and breakage patterns on hammerstones, cores and tools from Oldowan African and Eurasian lithic assemblages. Oldowan stone toolkits generally contain abundant small-sized flakes and their corresponding cores, and are characterized by their structural dichotomy of heavy- and light-duty tools. This paper explores the significance of the lesser known heavy-duty tool component, providing data from the late Lower Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain), dated 1.4-1.2 Myr. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the large-sized limestone industries from these two major sites, we present a new methodology highlighting their morpho-technological features. In the light of the results, we dis

SUBMITTER: Barsky D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4614715 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature