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Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya) [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Izdevniecība: Sidestone Press
  • ISBN-10: 9464280271
  • ISBN-13: 9789464280272
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Technological Styles in the Jebel Gharbi Lithic Industries of the Late Pleistocene (North-Western Libya)Palielināt
  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 210 pages, height x width: 280x210 mm, 90bw/5fc
  • Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Sidestone Press
  • ISBN-10: 9464280271
  • ISBN-13: 9789464280272
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This book offers the first overview of the Later Stone Age of North-western Libya through the detailed analysis of lithic production, use and discard.

The study of the human societies of the Final Pleistocene of North Africa requires an in-depth analysis of the techno-typological characteristics of the microlithic industries that were widespread in the whole Mediterranean area during the period between 24000 and 10000 years ago.

Most of the research projects in Maghreb and Libya were carried out decades ago. At the time sediments were rarely sieved and the small lithic tools, so characteristic of this period, were often lost. Also, little attention was paid to the raw material sourcing, which is an exceptional tool for understanding technology, human behavior and land management. It is thus of great importance to focus on new research, that has the potential to delineate a more detailed picture of the North-African Later Stone Age.

Based on more recent research in the Jebel Gharbi (Libya), this book offers a high-resolution description and documentation of the LSA lithic complexes of North-Western Libya, applying an approach that integrates up-to-date techno-typological studies with geochemistry and functional analysis. This research aims to define the characteristics of the human occupation of the Jebel Gharbi during the Late Pleistocene, with specific reference to the period from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene transition, delineating a picture of the human occupation of the area through about ten millennia. This volume represents an exhaustive overview on the Prehistory of Northern Libya in areas that aren’t, nowadays, accessible to researchers.
Acknowledgements 9(2)
Foreword 11(2)
Introduction 13(2)
1 Hunter-gatherer societies in the North African context. History of studies, definitions, chronology
15(20)
1.1 Research Objective
15(1)
1.2 Microlithism and backed bladelet-based lithic assemblages in the North African Late Plesistocene. Chronology, characteristics and diffusion
16(10)
1.3 The Mechtoid physical type and the LSA industries
26(2)
1.4 Pleistocene microlithic industries and palaeoclimatic aspects (LGM)
28(3)
1.5 Subsistence strategy of Late-Pleistocene hunter-gatherers and microlithic technology
31(1)
1.6 LSA research in North African LSA contexts: state of the art
32(3)
2 Jebel Gharbi, environment and cultures
35(24)
2.1 Introduction
35(4)
2.3 Geomorphology, chronostatigraphical sequences
39(4)
2.4 Palaoclimatical and palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Final Pleistocene
43(5)
2.5 Description of the sample of the Jebel Gharbi LSA sites studied
48(11)
3 Methodologies of study of lithic raw materials. Petrography, microscopy and geochemistry
59(18)
3.1 Methodological aspects
59(1)
3.2 Raw Material analysis and Characteristics of knappable stones
60(9)
3.3 Techniques for determining raw materials
69(6)
3.4 Criteria of analysis of lithic complexes
75(2)
4 Raw Materials: distribution, analysis and characteristics of flint outcrops in Jebel Gharbi
77(40)
4.1 Flint formations and outcrops in Jebel Gharbi
77(11)
4.2 Sampling procedure and preparation of a descriptive dossier as an instrument for data classification
88(11)
4.3 Sites SJ-06-85, SJ-06-84 and SG-07-94, three workshops of initial extraction of flint. Technological observations and experimental comparisons
99(9)
4.4 Quartzite and the origin of other raw materials in the LSA lithic complexes in Jebel Gharbi
108(9)
5 Study sample in the Shakshuk and Wadi Ghan Territories
117(46)
5.1 Introduction
117(1)
5.2 The Shakshuck area. SJ-00-55 East site. Raw materials, analysis, typological analysis, technological analysis
117(9)
5.3 Site SJ-00-56. Analysis of raw materials, typological analysis, technological analysis
126(4)
5.4 Cores
130(2)
5.5 Dimensional tendencies of the lithic complex
132(1)
5.6 SJ-00-56. Typological analysis
133(4)
5.7 Wadi Ghan area
137(6)
5.8 Site SJ-99-41. Analysis of raw materials, technological analysis, typological analysis
143(3)
5.9 5G-99-41. Typological analysis
146(2)
5.10 SG-99-41 TEST PIT. Technological analysis
148(15)
6 From the lithic assemblage to the site. Techno-functional and experimental study of lithic artefacts
163(16)
6.1 Methodological motivations of a light-power approach in the functional study of lithic techno-complexes and in the analysis of the site function
163(1)
6.3 Functional analysis of macro-traces and impact fractures of some of the complexes studied
164(2)
6.4 Experimental assessment of some techno-functional aspects of the lithic complexes studied. Realisation of the Ouchtata retouch. Production potential of cores, projectile hypothesis
166(5)
6.5 Functional interpretation of the sites studied in the light of technological, typological and functional data
171(5)
6.6 Discussion
176(3)
7 Final Remarks. Wide spectrum economy, settlement choices and raw materials procurement
179(2)
References 181
Giuseppina Mutri is currently Post Doc Fellow at the Cyprus Institute, where she is in charge of the study of dental calculus from different periods. Her previous research background focused on lithic technology and use-wear. Her experience on North African Prehistory began with her graduate dissertation on the lithic technology of the Upper Later Stone Age of Jebel Gharbi (Libya), where she also conducted extensive surveys for her PhD, working on the sourcing and characterization of lithic raw material for the same period.

At the same time, she had the opportunity to broaden her knowledge of the North African Stone Age by working in the Western Desert of Egypt. After her PhD she completed a Marie Skodowska-Curie fellowship at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge), working on the project HUMANARIDADAPT, focused on human adaptation strategies across the Last Glacial Maximum in Cyrenaica, Libya. This experience was followed by a Research Associate position in the same Institute within the ERC funded project TRANSNAP, where her duty was the study of use-wear and residues on lithic artefacts from Middle Stone Age to Neolithic.

From 2017 to 2020 she was Research Associate within the ERC project Hidden Foods at the University La Sapienza of Rome and the same University. She was awarded a grant under the program Grandi Scavi Sapienza to conduct research at the stone age site of Melka Kunture, in Ethiopia as responsible for the Later Stone Age Archaeology.

She applied a multidisciplinary-based approach, by integrating my deep knowledge of lithic technology with use-wear and residues analysis, experimental archaeology and archaeobotany. The potential of this contribution to the understanding human behavior and subsistence strategies has significantly increased and the outcomes fully fits in the current debate about the role of plant-based foods in hunter-gatherers societies.