Abstract
A wide range of archaeological data carry important information about human adaptations, especially about the people-land relationships in the past. These data are indispensable for reconstructing past subsistence practices and paleoeconomies that in themselves are an end product of a myriad of factors including the environmental given, the technical and technological level of the available tools, past cultural traditions, sociocultural transformations, and demographic shifts. We can monitor changes in past subsistence practices through the study of prehistoric tools, specifically through edgewear or trasology analysis, which shows their function (Semenov 1957). Information on the function of the stone and bone tools, obtained from the analysis of large-sized assemblages, where the exact provenance of the recovered objects is controlled, when combined with other sources of relevant data (e.g., archaeozoology, polynology, paleobotany, paleogeography, paleopedology, and paleoclimatology), permit us to create a reliable typology of past subsistence practices (Korobkova 1987).
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Korobkova, G.F. (1993). The Technology and Function of Tools in the Context of Regional Adaptations. In: Soffer, O., Praslov, N.D. (eds) From Kostenki to Clovis. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1112-4_12
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