Lab specialized in the study of macro- and microscopic wear traces and residues on prehistoric stone artefacts. University of Liège (BE).
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The project ”Experiment-based approach to Middle Stone Age artisanship at Rose Cottage Cave” strikes again. Funded by a Research Grant from The Leakey Foundation, we continue to investigate lithic technology between 100-30 ka at this reference Stone Age site in South Africa.
More exciting research! A new publication by Justin Coppe and Veerle Rots explores how morphometric interpretations influence evolutionary models of prehistoric weaponry and challenges long-standing assumptions about projectile technology.
Read the article here: doi.org/10.48738/202...
Collaborators on the project are Dr Noora Taipale (FNRS, TraceoLab), Dr Viola Schmid (TraceoLab, Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna, University of the Witwatersrand), and Prof. Lyn Wadley (ESI, University of the Witwatersrand).
This work is fundamental to deepening our knowledge about tool manufacture and subsistence of past hunter-gatherers within their social structures and habitats through functional and technological analyses.
Dr Roussel used thin, elongated blanks to apply diverse techniques of backing and larger, thicker elements to pressure flake them with the horn of a roan antelope into points with basal ventral thinning.
