Exploring sexual division of labour at “Nitra Horné Krškany” cemetery using stone tool use-wear analysis, physical activity markers, diet, and mobility as proxies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Masclans ◽  
Zdeněk Tvrdý ◽  
Juraj Pavúk ◽  
Michal Cheben ◽  
Penny Bickle
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Tool Use ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Wear Analysis ◽  
Use Wear

scholarly journals A sexual division of labour at the start of agriculture? A multi-proxy comparison through grave good stone tool technological and use-wear analysis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0249130
Author(s):  
Alba Masclans ◽  
Caroline Hamon ◽  
Christian Jeunesse ◽  
Penny Bickle
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Wear Analysis ◽  
Use Wear ◽  
Grave Good ◽  
East West

This work demonstrates the importance of integrating sexual division of labour into the research of the transition to the Neolithic and its social implications. During the spread of the Neolithic in Europe, when migration led to the dispersal of domesticated plants and animals, novel tasks and tools, appear in the archaeological record. By examining the use-wear traces from over 400 stone tools from funerary contexts of the earliest Neolithic in central Europe we provide insights into what tasks could have been carried out by women and men. The results of this analysis are then examined for statistically significant correlations with the osteological, isotopic and other grave good data, informing on sexed-based differences in diet, mobility and symbolism. Our data demonstrate males were buried with stone tools used for woodwork, and butchery, hunting or interpersonal violence, while women with those for the working of animal skins, expanding the range of tasks known to have been carried out. The results also show variation along an east-west cline from Slovakia to eastern France, suggesting that the sexual division of labour (or at least its representation in death) changed as farming spread westwards.

Stone Tool Use at Cerros: The Ethnoarchaeological and Use-Wear Evidence

Ethnohistory ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Johan Kamminga ◽  
Suzanne M. Lewenstein
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Use Wear

Stone Tool Use at Cerros: Ethnoarchaeological and Use-Wear Evidence.

Man ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Robert S. Santley ◽  
Suzanne M. Lewenstein
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Use Wear

Mastodon butchery: microscopic evidence of carcass processing and bone tool use

Paleobiology ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Shipman ◽  
Daniel C. Fisher ◽  
Jennie J. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
Temporal Representation ◽  
Bone Modification ◽  
Use Wear ◽  
Lake Site ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Bone Tool

Scanning electron microscope (SEM) examination of bone surfaces from the Pleasant Lake mastodon, excavated in southern Michigan, documents features indicative of butchery. These features are identified by comparison with modern bones modified by human and natural processes. We report new studies of (1) marks made by bone tools during removal of meat from and disarticulation of carcasses and (2) use wear developed on bone tools. We also apply previously developed criteria for recognizing stone tool cutmarks and stages in the burning of bone. The Pleasant Lake site, dated to between 10,395 ± 100 and 12,845 ± 165 b.p., provides compelling evidence of mastodon butchery and bone tool use. Another site, near New Hudson, Michigan, provides replication of much of this evidence. Together these sites offer new examples of patterns of bone modification and extend the geographic and temporal representation of the much discussed, but still controversial, late Pleistocene bone technology.

scholarly journals Rethinking Use-Wear Analysis and Experimentation as Applied to the Study of Past Hominin Tool Use

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Marreiros ◽  
Ivan Calandra ◽  
Walter Gneisinger ◽  
Eduardo Paixão ◽  
Antonella Pedergnana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
Wear Analysis ◽  
Use Wear
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