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- Title
南コーカサス地方新石器時代における石刃生産技術 -押圧剥離法適用の検討と梃子式の可能性-.
- Authors
池山 史華
- Abstract
Neolithic lithic industries of the South Caucasus are characterized by the proliferation of obsidian blade production using pressure technology, supposedly a technological element introduced from the Neolithic Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia. In an attempt to facilitate detailed comparisons between the lithic technologies of these two Neolithic provinces, the present study analyzed the use of pressure technology and its variability in the Neolithic of Azerbaijan with the aid of "fracturewing analysis." The application of this method to analyzing obsidian artifacts from two early Neolithic sites in Azerbaijan (Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe and Göytepe) confirmed the prevalent employment of pressure technology for blade production in a quantitative way for the first time. Moreover, analyses from the results of our replicative experiments revealed the possibility that pressure blade production with a lever, which represents the most complex pressure technology developed in Southwest Asia, was already in use during the early stage of the Neolithic in the South Caucasus.
- Publication
Journal of West Asian Archaeology / Nishiajia Kōkogaku, 2020, Vol 21, p17
- ISSN
1345-6288
- Publication type
Academic Journal