On the origin and significance of microburins: an experimental approach

• Autores: David De Wilde
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 85, Nº 329, 2011, págs. 729-741
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The authors used knapping experiments to study the way that microburins are produced. Once thought of as signature pieces of the Mesolithic, these experiments suggest that they were by-products of a gradual technological development by knappers trying to make arrowheads that had no bulb of percussion � and were thus easier to haft. They make a case for an evolution already present in the late Palaeolithic and determined by practical, rather than cultural, social or environmental imperatives