Some Notes on Rock Shelter Sites near Huancayo, Peru

1946 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Tschopik
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Observatory ◽  
Carnegie Institution ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Writing

The purpose of the present paper is to call attention to certain rock shelter sites in the vicinity of Huancayo, Peru, which—since they have yielded thus far several types of chipped stone artifacts and bone implements, but no pottery—appear at the present writing to be unique in Peru. The two sites described in the following pages are situated on old terraces of the Chupaca River, a tributary of the Mantaro, in Junín Department in the central Peruvian highlands. They were brought to the writer's notice by Mr. Paul G. Ledig, Observer-in- Charge of the Carnegie Institution Magnetic Observatory near Huancayo, who has in the past made small excavations at both sites.

scholarly journals The site Vavilino 1 on the right bank of the Derkul River in Western Kazakhstan (materials of 2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-173
Author(s):  
Talgat Basarbaevich Mamirov
Keyword(s):  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Western Kazakhstan ◽  
The Right ◽  
Bone Remains ◽  
Excavation Area

The paper is devoted to preliminary data from a study of the Vavilino 1 site in Western Kazakhstan. The monument was first opened by N.M. Malov in 1986, later he picked artifacts from the surface in 1988. In 1991 N.L. Morgunova carried out excavations on the site, which showed the importance of this monument study to understand the Neolithic Volga-Ural interfluve. The monument is located on the right bank of the Derkul River and is currently classified as an emergency. In 2018, employees of the Institute of Archeology named after A.Kh. Margulan in the framework of the Stone Age study in Western Kazakhstan started to work on the monuments of Yeshkitau, Derkul 1 and Vavilino 1. At the Vavilino 1 site a small excavation area - 16 square meters was made, more than a thousand stone artifacts were received; fragments of ceramics and bone remains of animals were poorly diagnosed. Excavations have shown the presence of a 15-20 cm thick cultural layer belonging to the Neolithic time. The upper layer of the monument with a capacity of up to 30 cm was destroyed by anthropogenic activities in the past century. The material from the cultural layer is not numerous; tip scrapers, fragments of plates with retouching, geometrical microliths, prismatic nucleus for plates, etc. are typologically distinguished.

Chipped Stone Artifacts

2008 ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Kaczanowska ◽  
Janusz K. Kozłowski
Keyword(s):  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone

scholarly journals ETHNOECOLOGY IN PRE-HISPANIC CENTRAL AMERICA: FOODWAYS AND HUMAN-PLANT INTERFACES

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-553
Author(s):  
Shanti Morell-Hart ◽  
Rosemary A. Joyce ◽  
John S. Henderson ◽  
Rachel Cane
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Central America ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Macrobotanical Remains ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Dynamic Relationship

AbstractIn recent years, researchers in pre-Hispanic Central America have used new approaches that greatly amplify and enhance evidence of plants and their uses. This paper presents a case study from Puerto Escondido, located in the lower Ulúa River valley of Caribbean coastal Honduras. We demonstrate the effectiveness of using multiple methods in concert to interpret ethnobotanical practice in the past. By examining chipped-stone tools, ceramics, sediments from artifact contexts, and macrobotanical remains, we advance complementary inquiries. Here, we address botanical practices “in the home,” such as foodways, medicinal practices, fiber crafting, and ritual activities, and those “close to home,” such as agricultural and horticultural practices, forest management, and other engagements with local and distant ecologies. This presents an opportunity to begin to develop an understanding of ethnoecology at Puerto Escondido, here defined as the dynamic relationship between affordances provided in a botanical landscape and the impacts of human activities on that botanical landscape.

Norton Hunters and Fisherfolk

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Dumond
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Coastal Resources ◽  
Bering Strait ◽  
The South ◽  
Alaska Peninsula ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Alaska

By the late centuries B.C., occupations assigned to Norton people are reported from a southern point on the Alaska Peninsula, then north and eastward along coastal areas to a point east of the present border with Canada. The relatively uniform material culture suggests origin from the north and west (pottery from Asia, chipped-stone artifacts from predecessors in northern Alaska), as well as from the south and east (lip ornaments or labrets, and pecked-stone lamps burning sea-mammal oil). In early centuries A.D., Norton people north and east of Bering Strait yielded to Asian-influenced peoples more strongly focused on coastal resources, while those south of the Strait collected in sites along salmon-rich streams where they developed with increasing sedentarism until about A.D. 1000, when final Thule-related expansion along coasts from the north displaced or incorporated Norton remnants.

scholarly journals Sebaran Sumatralith Sebagai Indikasi Jarak Dan Ruang Jelajah Pendukung Hoabinhian

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Ketut Wiradnyana
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
River Channel ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exploration Area ◽  
Past Activity

AbstractA river was highly significant in search of a settlement in the past, which is why there have been numerous findings of pre-historic sites and activities at watersheds. Findings of stone artifacts of the same kind at some estuaries indicate similar environment exploitations. Such exploitations could have been at relatively the same time or at a different time. To know the past activity more accurately, morphological and technological analyses on the stone artifacts need implementing.Furthermore, a comparative analysis on the findings of similar artifacts along with their distribution is an inseparable method in investigating the culture and the distance and space of the pre-historic men. The Sumatralith distribution at the Bay of Belawan’s estuaries indicates exploitations by men inhabiting the site of Bukit Kerang Percut by using the river channel as the hunting navigation to the highland of Tanah Karo covering 25-30 km of exploration area. Such interpretation indicates the direction of exploration from the lowland (the site of Bukit Kerang Percut) to the highland of Tanah Karo. The existence of the site of Bukit Kerang Percut and Sumatralith distribution also indicate the settlement of Hoabinh culture people at the highland whose exploration space covered the lower land.AbstrakSungai memiliki peran penting dalam menentukan lokasi hunian pada masa lalu. Oleh karena itu, situs-situs masa prasejarah dengan aktivitasnya kerap ditemukan di Daerah Aliran Sungai. Temuan artefak batu yang sejenis di beberapa sungai yang bermuara sama, mengindikasikan adanya upaya eksploitasi lingkungan yang sama. Eksploitasi dimaksud dapat dalam waktu yang relatif sama atau dapat juga dalam waktu yang berbeda. Untuk mengetahui aktivitas masa lalu dengan lebih baik maka diperlukan analisa morfologi dan teknologi atas artefak batu dimaksud, serta temuan lain yang dapat memberikan interpretasi yang lebih baik. Selain itu adanya perbandingan dengan artefak sejenis pada situs terdekat dan diketahuinya sebaran artefak tersebut, merupakan bagian yang sangat penting untuk mengetahui budaya dan jarak serta ruang jelajah manusia masa prasejarah. Sebaran sumatralith yang ditemukan di sungai-sungai yang bermuara di Teluk Belawan mengindikasikan adanya eksploitasi manusia yang menghuni di Situs Bukit Kerang Percut, dengan memanfaatkan alur sungai sebagai navigasi aktivitas perburuan ke dataran tinggi Tanah Karo, dengan jarak jelajah berkisar 25-30 km. Interpretasi tersebut menunjukkan adanya arah jelajah dari dataran rendah (Situs Bukit Kerang Percut) ke dataran tinggi Tanah Karo. Hal lainnya yang dimungkinkan atas keberadaan situs Bukit Kerang Percut dan sebaran sumatralith adalah, adanya indikasi hunian pendukung budaya Hoabinh di dataran tinggi, yang memiliki ruang jelajah hingga ke dataran yang lebih rendah.

The Columbia-Fraser Region and the Northwest Coast

1950 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Marian W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Marine Economy ◽  
Wood Sculpture ◽  
Stone Carving

The archaeology of the Columbia-Fraser region in the southern Northwest Coast is more complicated than early generalizations woilld have led one to suspect. Although there has been a constant adaptation to a river and marine economy, variations within that economy are marked and may be tentatively identified by the presence of bone and stone carving, and by the proportion.of stone to bone tools. Using these criteria, four cultural phases may be recognized: (1) Late Bone, which ties with historically known Indian groups and occurs throughout the region. It has wood sculpture but no carving in bone or stone; there are a few ground stone artifacts but chipped stone is rare. (2) Early Bone, which has the greatest antiquity and is apparently the richest culture of the region, having elaborate carving in bone and stone, beaten copper, a large variety of bone artifacts, and a number of stone pieces both ground and chipped.

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