INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNAPPABLE MATERIALS Barcelona, 7-12 september 2015 University of Barcelona
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Edited by Xavier Mangado, Otis Crandell, Marta Sánchez, Manuel Cubero Published by SERP - Universitat de Barcelona, 2015
ISKM 2015 - Abstracts
4. Use-wear analyses - signs of usage on stone tools (a.k.a. traceology)
USE-WEAR ANALYSIS OF A SINGULAR ARTIFACT: THE ROCK CRYSTAL POINT FROM O ACHADIZO (BOIRO, A CORUÑA, GALICIA, SPAIN) The knapped stone industry in the Galician Iron Age hillforts is largely unknown. Currently, research on the material culture of these Galician Iron Age settlements is becoming increasingly diverse. Therefore, they are no longer reduced to studies of typologies and technical analysis over ceramics and metals, but they also include a wide range of approaches to culture such as, for example, anthracological and carpological analyses, as well as trade. This deficiency in the investigation - which may depend on various factors limits the overall perception of the economy of these peoples since it does not refer to an entire technological complex. In this study we present data obtained from the use-wear study of a rock crystal tool from the castrum of O Achadizo (Boiro, A Coruña, Galicia). This tool was located in "shell midden A", dated to the 2nd Iron Age, and is of particular importance because of its pointed morphology and the evidence of configuration around its perimeter. For the study of this piece, we carried out a macroscopic and microscopic analysis in order to obtain as much data as possible. The location of a series of striae which are discordant with the use of the piece as point, along with the macroscopic data, has lead us to make a number of “gigaphotos”. With these “gigaphotos” we were able to document the orientation of the linear features. In this way, we have seen that there is a differential orientation of the striations in the various sectors of the tip, suggesting a possible technical nature.
(1) - FERNÁNDEZ MARCHENA, Juan Luis (
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[email protected]) (2) - SEOANE NOVO, Cristina (2) - RODRÍGUEZ NÓVOA, Alba Antía (
[email protected]) (2) - AMADO RODRÍGUEZ, Estevo (
[email protected]) (1) - PÉREZ TENORIO, R. (
[email protected]) 1. IPHES/URV, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain; 2. GEPN, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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