A brief analysis of the relationship between ancient stone tool production types and human processes
First, the study of ancient human learning of technological knowledge
Archaeologists draw on the work of Giddens and Bourdieu to describe and elucidate the ways in which technology involves social relations and generates meaning through the study of social practices and the relationship of technology to knowledge and community.
Technical research best explores practical theories and the relationship of agency to social structures and structures. Dobrais and Robb's research function on institutions in the archaeological record mastered the continuity, stability, and change of technology over time.
According to these authors, Giddens considers the value of skills and knowledge embedded in everyday social practice and how individuals retain and transmit knowledge, pointing to the consciousness of subjects in practice and their evaluation.
The structures that result from the construction of daily practices and rituals have greater political, economic, social and ritual significance in cultural rules and structures.
Where people live and make decisions or choices, it is usually known through the daily practices of the people who live there and the accumulation of the history of oaths represented by the agent.
Agent-focused research can be seen as applying individualistic frameworks that can lead to structural changes and shifts on the individual plane, which may not explain structural replication as a whole.
The structure of daily practices and habitual behaviors is simply what people do, how habits and communities are formed by sharing the structure of the conscious and subconscious and the choices, skills, and knowledge of people from generation to generation.
The structured structure can be seen in the way people do what they do, the technology they use and the importance of learning as part of public life.
The study of matter is used to understand precisely how institutions and people live, how they carry out everyday activities, socialize, share public spaces, grow, create unique histories, and how they choose and are part of a social network of knowledge.
The study of stone tools and social institutions is expanded through the study of their life histories and postoperative life. Studying the living history of stone artifacts includes the manufacture, use, and revival of artifacts, and in some cases, instances of artifacts recovered after they are discarded, at which point it is likely to be planned or remain dormant before being rediscovered at some point in the future.
The focus of stone tool research institutions seems to stay on the process of stone tool making, maintenance and discarding, with changes in form seen as different stages of the use cycle of artifacts, and researchers tend to think that stone tools are largely passive and used by purely social institutions.
Second, the life history and production technology of stone tools
Relationships between institutions and people have always been an important area of interest for social science researchers. This dichotomy can provide an opportunity to study archaeological traces in terms of the life history of artifacts or the useful life of artifacts, naming matter and traces or techniques and processes for some recent research and contributions to archaeology.
The study of the life history of stone tools is related to the one-way removal of flakes, first established by William Henry Holmes. Past reduction sequence phases are associated with production phases, phases, or continuums in the life of the artifact.
Includes cuttings tools and separators, also known as scrap or debris, to understand tool production activities, techniques, techniques, and possible uses.
Various studies on rock defects have focused on differences in defect characteristics to understand technical practices. These studies focus on the relationship between production technology and platform perspectives and compelling platform and sheet sizes to understand behavioral and technological materiality.
Recent literature has also utilized the concept from the stone chip operating room to study the method of stone chip reduction sequence. This includes questions about whether the operating room encompasses a broader process than the English term reduction sequence or rock chip tool production.
The concept of the operating room encompasses the different stages that tools go through, from raw material procurement, manufacturing, use to final discarding, and in some cases the possibility of recycling in a social context.
Sellet defines theater as a "technical approach to the social organization that seeks to reconstruct a technological system on a particular archaeological site."
It seeks to understand and describe cultural shifts through the different raw materials and technologies used in production and use. He questioned whether the concept of a partner's operating room was broader than the concept of reduced sequences.
Very comparable, the study of rock technology through a perspective, aims to reconstruct sequences of actions or events, everyday practices printed in the life history of an object.
This attempts to reconstruct the events and social interactions that may occur during the different stages and steps of obtaining raw materials, manufacturing and resharpening tools, which may lead to the reconfiguration of artifacts.
Some archaeologists associate curation with the transport of stone tools. Others include production, maintenance, transportation to multiple locations, and even explanations of recycling tools.
Archaeologists are already adding the concepts of separating elements, complex peeling patterns, and even complex tools to the definition of management and reuse.
However, both concepts seem inclusive and take into account the different stages of stone tool production, technology, consumption and eventual discarded artifacts. The study of the life history of stone tool management has led to a distinction between planning tools and convenience tools.
Well-curated tools are thought to have extensive retouching and are associated with foragers, while handy tools are rarely embellished and are associated with collectors.
Later research led to the realization that this simple relationship was unrealistic and that there were many other factors that influenced the configuration of stone tools, such as the availability of raw materials, form, and even function.
The study of stone tools and behavioral procedures for evaluation is presented and becomes an important part of archaeological analysis and interpretation and the basis of current analysis.
In an ethnological study of pottery production in the Guatemalan highlands, Reina and Hill provide a model of continuity and shared practices where the production of certain pottery items can continue with little change and continuity dating back hundreds of years, demonstrating the reproduction of skills and knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
The importance of oral TK and knowledge in traditional cultures is not limited to stories, but also creates the transmission of technical knowledge and skills from generation to generation.
Bibliography:
Stone Tool Research
"Economy and Society"
