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A New Synthesis of Middle Paleolithic Variability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Nicolas Rolland  and
Harold L. Dibble
Nicolas Rolland
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaV8W 2Y2
Harold L. Dibble
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398
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Abstract

The familiar debate concerning Middle Paleolithic variability has opposed stylistic vs. functional explanations based on the assumption that tool types and assemblage groups represent discrete, invariant entities. Middle Paleolithic variability, however, actually occurs continuously. Further, recent research shows that raw-material constraints and different degrees of artifact-reduction intensity constitute more basic and observable factors of variability than function and style. Thus, much of the variability in these assemblages appears to have been caused by toolmaking and tool-rejuvenation processes and/or by differential occupation intensity induced by environmental circumstances. The correct interpretation of these Middle Paleolithic assemblages must therefore consider these factors, as well as interregional stylistic drift, function, and diachronic change.

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El debate familiar sobre el paleolítico medio ha levantado una dicotomía del estilo vs. la función, basada en la premisa que tipos distinctos de útiles y grupos de conjuntos forman entidades invariantes y discretas. Sin embargo, en el paleolítico medio, en realidad la variabilidad ocurre de continuo. Además, trabajo reciente muestra que constreñimientos de la materia prima y los grados distinctos de la intensidad de reductión de los artefactos constituyeron factores de la variabilidad más fundamentals y observables. Mucha de ella haya sido causada por la fabricatión de útiles y los procesos de rejuvenecer útiles, o por la intensidad diferencial de ocupación inducida por circunstancias ambientales. En la interpretación de esta variabilidad hay que considerar igualmente a la escala amplia de factores incluso los antedichos, la variabilidad interregional del estilo, la función y los modelos diacrónicos.

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American Antiquity , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 480 - 499
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1990 

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