G19 - Reading the Stones, Tracing the Changes: Lithic Technology during the Paleolithic - Neolithic Transition

Session Organisers: Andrey Tabarev, David Kilby, Yoshitaka Kanomata

Category: Technology

Session Abstract: The transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic brought about profound changes in human behavior and adaptations, including changes in mobility, social organization, settlement patterns, and subsistence practices. These changes are directly reflected in lithic technology, both in the development of new tools and technologies and the fundamental reorganization of technological systems. In some regions of the World this is manifested in the decline of the Paleolithic blade/microblade technologies, in the shift from the heavily curated to more expedient strategies, in the additional emphasis on prestige items (lithic caches,) etc. This session brings together presenters from around the World (Eurasia, Americas, Africa, and Australia) to review and examine the lithic technological developments that accompany the Paleolithic-Neolithic transition in their respective regions. The goals of this session are to survey the variety of patterns and perhaps identify cross- cultural regularities during this era of significant technological transitions. Technological analysis, use-wear studies, and experimental archaeology are among the effective approaches to understanding these changes and topics for discussion in the session.

Room: M

05/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
10:00 - 10:20	Metin Kartal, Gizem Kartal	Körtik Tepe Chipped Stone Assemblage
10:20 - 10:40	Zeynep Beyza Agirsoy	Chipped Stone Artefacts and Human-Environment Dynamics: Insights from Gre Fılla during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A.
10:40 - 11:00	Liubov Golovanova, Vladimir Doronichev, Ekaterina Doronicheva	Changes in lithic industry during the Epipaleolithic to Neolithic transition in the North Caucasus: based on materials of the Alebastroviy zavod rockshelter
11:00 - 11:20	Antonella Minelli, Maria Rosaria Belgiorno	The lithic industry of the archaeological site of Pyrgos Mavroraki: new data for the reconstruction of the human presence on the island of Cyprus

Lunch Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:20	Andrey Tabarev	In the Shadow of Pottery: Lithics as one of the signals of Neolithisation (Siberia and Russian Far East)
13:20 - 13:40	Natalia Tsydenova	Paleolithic – Neolithic transition in North Asia: the context of lithic technologies
13:40 - 14:00	Ekaterina Bocharova, Pavel Chystyakov, Ravil Zhdanov	Evolution and Dissemination of Composite Slotted Tools in Eastern Siberia
14:00 - 14:20	Yoshitaka Kanomata	Major changes in stone tool technology in the Japanese archipelago during the transition from the Paleolithic to the Jomon period

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:05	David Kilby	The Reorganization of Technology: Trajectories of Change in Lithic Technological Organization in the North American Southwest
15:05 - 15:25	Ryan M. Parish	Spatial patterning in chert source networks during the Pleistocene/Early Holocene transition in southeastern North America
15:25 - 15:45	Jon C. Lohse, Mike Mcbride, Sébastien Perrot-Minnot	Paleoindian Origins of the Earliest Archaic Stone Tool Traditions in Mesoamerica: a Look at the Yucatan Shelf as Evidence for Cultural Diversity by 13,000 Years Ago

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:50	Aouimeur Samia	Indication of Capsian-Neolithic transition through the typo-technological complex of the lithic industry at the Medjez II site eastern Algeria
16:50 - 17:10	Douglas Sain	Comparing reduction intensity of modified blades from the Topper Site, a Paleoindian chert quarry in South Carolina and Boncuklu, an Early Neolithic site in Turkey
17:10 - 17:30	Shane Miller, James Hardin, Stephen Carmody, Caleb Hutson	East Meets West: Comparing the Origins of Agriculture in Eastern North America and the Fertile Crescent