ARCHAEOLOGY, STONE TOOLS AND RIMAPS TECHNIQUE: A QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF USE-WEAR TRACES

ALVAREZ, M.; FAVRET, E.; PAL, N.; DOMÍNGUEZ, A.; BRIZ I GODINO, I.

Buenos Aires

Congreso; XV Congreso Interamericano de Microscopía. CIASEM-SAMIC; 2019

Archaeology relies on material remains to attain a broad comprehensive understanding of human evolution, creating undeniable challenges to the methodological field. Microscopy and image techniques have had a paramount role in this field of research since they provide different analytical lines to solve problems related to human tools. One of these problems entails to identify how a lithic tool was used. It is known, following the Russian researcher Sergei Semenov, that different working processes leave singular traces on the surface of a stone tool in contact with the working materialIn the present paper, quantitative patterns on chert and quarzite tools that worked hide, wood and bone were distinguished and the incidence of the mineralogical and textural properties of the rocks in the formation processes of use-wear traces was analyzed.