Thursday, September 09, 2021

Ancient stone technology in Alabama

 This might be of interest:

Capps: A Levallois-like Prepared Core Technology in the Southeastern United States | Blaine Ensor - Academia.edu

2 comments :

  1. Curtiss Hoffman9:28 PM

    There are only so many ways one can flake stone. It is not surprising that groups should have hit upon similar methods. I once found a tool at a Massachusetts site that strongly resembled an Oldowan tool - but this did not lead me to conclude that Australopithecines were present! The same applies to the conjecture that outre-pas flaking such as is found on Paleo-Indian tools and Solutrean tools in Spain and France necessarily imply a transatlantic relationship between the two cultures.

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  2. Yes true, but the technology sophistication compared to oldowan is significant. Mutual parallel development get's harder to justify when the technology is so complex.

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