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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106431
	Hot debate: Identifying heat treatment in Australian archaeology using science and modern indigenous knowledge
	Maloney T.R.; Street M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	241
英文摘要	The deliberate heat treatment of lithic material for stone tools is a critical and hotly debated subject in human evolution and archaeology, representing a major technological innovation. This engineering of material has proven hard to demonstrate with archaeological data, although experimental data back early records from southern Africa. There is scant evidence of heat treatment from records representing early modern human migrations out of Africa and along the migration routes through Sunda to Sahul. The long cultural sequences found in Australian archaeology, have rarely been assessed for heat treatment, although it was practised in recent times by Indigenous peoples. Using modern Indigenous knowledge and a comprehensive review of the latest heat treatment identification methods, we assess a Pleistocene to Holocene record spanning some 47,000 years, for signals of deliberate heat treatment. We find unambiguous evidence for heat treatment to occur only in the mid to late Holocene, corresponding to a time of significant change. We discuss these findings concerning stone tool technology as an adaptive response to changing environmental, economic and social contexts. Our unique approach offers global relevance to the study of deliberate heat treatment in prehistory and engages with global debates on technological organization theory. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Australia; Holocene; Indigenous archaeology; Lithic heat treatment; Pleistocene
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Environmental technology; History; Adaptive response; Human evolution; Identification method; Indigenous knowledge; Indigenous people; Mid to late Holocene; Organization theory; Technological innovation; Heat treatment; archaeological evidence; historical time (human history); human evolution; indigenous knowledge; indigenous population; innovation; migratory population; Pleistocene; technological development; Africa
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151401
作者单位	Griffith University, Centre for Social and Cultural Research, School of Humanities Languages and Social Science, Gold Coast, Australia; Traditional Owner, Gooniyandi Country, Muludja Community, Fitzroy Crossing, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Maloney T.R.,Street M.. Hot debate: Identifying heat treatment in Australian archaeology using science and modern indigenous knowledge[J],2020,241.
APA	Maloney T.R.,&Street M..(2020).Hot debate: Identifying heat treatment in Australian archaeology using science and modern indigenous knowledge.Quaternary Science Reviews,241.
MLA	Maloney T.R.,et al."Hot debate: Identifying heat treatment in Australian archaeology using science and modern indigenous knowledge".Quaternary Science Reviews 241(2020).