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New publication: Van den Dikkenberg (2026) "Living with Flint: Lithic biographies and daily life in the Rhine-Meuse Delta during the Vlaardingen Culture period (3400–2500 BCE)"
AWRANA member Dr Lasse van den Dikkenberg has recently published his PhD thesis through Sidestone Press. Read the abstract here: Our understanding of prehistoric life is shaped to a large degree by the study of stone tools. Their exceptional preservation makes flint tools ideally suited to reconstruct past lifeways. Use-wear analysis provides insights into the role of the ‘missing majority’ of perishable organic materials such as hide, wood, and plant fibres in past technolog
López Sevilla, Ángel Rafael & Rojas Chávez, Juan Martín (2025) Costilla de mamut (Mammoth rib)
Publisher: Museo Nacional de Antropología - INAH México This rib, belonging to the second Santa Isabel Iztapan specimen, was selected from the individual's skeletal assemblage because—despite the various taphonomic processes that altered the bones—it retains cultural marks identifiable as the result of human activities, such as cutting and butchering. These actions were performed using lithic tools, such as knives made from materials like chert, rhyolite, or obsidian. Selecte
PICHON, Fiona et al. (2026) | Assessing the reliability of silicone replicas in the analysis of sickle gloss at the early Neolithic site of Cheikh Hassan (Northern Levant, 11th millennium BP)
Publisher: Journal of Archaeological Science Language: English DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106446 Abstract: Over the past decade, confocal microscopy combined with quantitative texture analysis has opened new possibilities for studying prehistoric tool use. However, a key challenge remains in identifying the extent to which different acquisition methods—direct surface measurements versus silicone moulds—influence the textural properties of the original surfaces. T
Special Issue: Current Studies on Archaeological Worked Bone Heritage
Message from the Guest Editors A growing number of differently oriented studies have focused on historical and prehistoric artefacts made of osseous raw materials. Microscopic analysis is used for conducting technological research, allowing for the reconstruction of the chaîne opératoire of various types of artefacts from the raw materials in question. Complicated functional (use-wear) research is also carried out to interpret ancient bone tools’ functions. A complementary as
PICHON, Fiona et al. (2025) | Shining Light on Dark Matter: Advancing Functional Analysis of Obsidian Tools with Confocal Scanning Microscopy
Publisher: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Language: English DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09700-0 Abstract: Over the past decade, confocal microscopy has increasingly been employed to examine changes in stone tool surfaces and Read More …
CADALEN, Naya | Activités artisanales et division des tâches dans une société maya classique. Approche systémique et fonctionnelle de l’outillage lithique de Cancuén (Guatemala) | Université Côte d...
Pages: 580 Publisher: Université Côte d’Azur (France, 2023) Language: French Read More …
Call for papers – Special Issue “Not Just Wear: The synergy of trace analysis with other disciplines and non-invasive techniques in archaeology” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Submission deadline: 1 September 2025 The special issue “Not Just Wear: The synergy of trace analysis with other disciplines and non-invasive techniques in archaeology” – Journal of Archaeological Method and Read More …
CAURETTE, Natacha | Le travail de la peau durant le Solutréen récent. Approches fonctionnelles de l’équipement lithique et osseux de Combe Saunière (Dordogne), du Cuzoul de Vers (Lot) et de Landry ...
Pages: 691 Publisher: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, 2024) Language: French Read More …
“Tracing Social Dynamics” Proceedings of the 3rd Association of Archaeological Wear and Residue Analysts (AWRANA) Meeting (Barcelona 2022)
Link to the Special Issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2024)
MARINELLI, Flavia et al. | The use of bones as tools in Late Lower Paleolothic of Central Italy
Publisher: Scientific Reports Language: English Read More …
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