Across forests and savannas: Later Stone Age assemblages from Ituri and Semliki, Democratic Republic of Congo

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Mercader, J [1 ]
Brooks, AS [1 ]
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[1] George Washington Univ, Dept Anthropol, Washington, DC 20052 USA
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10.1086/jar.57.2.3631567
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Q98 [人类学];
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This article characterizes Later Stone Age quartz industries from several sites in the rain forests an woodland-savanna mosaics of the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with an emphasis on various reduction strategies that include simple debitage, bipolar percussion, discoidal centripetal percussion, Modes 4 and 5, pebble tools, flaw propagation, and found tools. Comparisons between forest and woodland-savanna sites Establish strong similarities among them over rime, determine deliberature cultural choices as to raw material selection and overall reduction strategics, provide further evidence for an early inception of the Later Stone Age across tropical Africa, and show that ecologically distinct or highly specialized extractive technologies were not required to settle rainforests.
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