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Use wear and post-depositional surface modification: A word of caution
Institution:1. Institute of Archaeology, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPY UK;1. Postdoc Fondation Fyssen, Centre de Recherche en Archéologie Archéosciences Histoire, UMR 6566 CNRS, CReAAH, Université Rennes 1, France;2. Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain;1. Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Poland;2. TraCEr. Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments. MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, LEIZA, Neuwied, Germany;3. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;4. IMPALA. Imaging Platform at LEIZA, Mainz, Germany;5. LEIZA, Leibniz Research Institute for Archaeology, Mainz, Germany;6. ICArEHB, Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal;7. Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Lisa Schunk, Mainz, Germany;1. Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Germany;2. Independent researcher, via A. Mancini, Rome, Italy;3. Department of Sciences of Antiquity, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;4. The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Israel;1. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20 Hatfield, Tshwane 0028, South Africa;2. Cultural and Heritage Studies, School of Social Science, University of Mpumalanga, Mbombela 1200, South Africa;1. IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Zona educacional 4, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain;2. Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Fac. de Lletres, Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Abstract:This is a preliminary report on experiments designed to study the effect of stratigraphically invisible minor movement of artifacts in the sediment on flint surfaces. The hypothesis was that such prolonged movement could be responsible for postdepositional surface modifications which sometimes mimick use-wear traces and at other times obliterate them. The study was prompted by observation of the high incidence of these phenomena on a wide variety of sites. The results constitute a cautionary tale to those embarking on the microwear analysis of assemblages where these surface alterations are present.
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