Smith Creek Lithic Tool Analysis

Short Communication: Using polychaetes as an assessment tool for health status of Jafari Creek, North-West of the Persian Gulf

Short Communication: Using polychaetes as an assessment tool for health status of Jafari Creek, North-West of the Persian Gulf

Extracting Scar and Ridge Features from 3D-scanned Lithic Artifacts

We propose a method for computer analysis of 3D-scanned lithic artifacts. It provides a detailed description of the scars and ridges that were left on the surface of the stone tool while it was produced by knapping. Traditional documentation and research methods are based on hand drawn images of stone tools and manual measurements. Our algorithm enables automatic, objective and precise document...

Further evidence of a lower pleistocene arrival of early humans in northern Europe--the Untermassfeld site (Germany).

The discovery of 24 stone artifacts and two bone tools at the German fluvial site of Untermassfeld associated with a rich vertebrate fauna of the Epivillafranchian provide further evidence of a Lower Pleistocene arrival of early Homo in northern Europe, since results of geological, paleomagnetic and biostratigraphic investigations point to an absolute age of approximately 1.07 million years (ma...

Measuring the Complexity of Lithic Technology

Assessments of the complexity of lithic technologies coming from different time periods, regions, or hominid species are recurrent features of the literature on Paleolithic archaeology. Yet the notion of lithic complexity is often defined intuitively and qualitatively, which can easily lead to circular arguments and makes difficult the comparison of assemblages across different regions and time...