The research presented in this thesis examines a lithic assemblage from the multi-component habitation site Gorelyi Les in the Belaia river valley, Cis-Baikal region, Siberia. The distinctive traits of this collection are the relatively small size of the lithic assemblage and the large proportion of debitage. The chosen methodological framework for this research concentrates on obtaining maximum information from the available materials through application of typological, technological, use-wear, and spatial analyses. The results suggest that there were differences in the organization of the technological process of lithic tool manufacture during the Early Neolithic and Late Neolithic. During the Early Neolithic, lithic tool manufacture and use were rather intensive and diversified, while during the Late Neolithic, tool manufacture and use were limited to a narrower range of technological operations and functions.

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Cette étude expose les résultats d’une analyse technologique menée pour la première fois sur trois séries lithiques (Tamar Hat, Rassel, Columnata) attribuées à l’Ibéromaurusien de l’Algérie couvrant une phase ancienne attestée à Tamar Hat (20 600 ± 500 BP) et une phase récente à Columnata (10 800 ± 425 BP). L’analyse technologique a mis en évidence une variabilité, qui semble davantage s’affirmer vers la phase récente, au niveau des comportements techniques adoptés par les populations de chacun des sites. La prise en compte des stratégies d’approvisionnement des matières premières, des méthodes et techniques appliquées dans le débitage, ainsi que la transformation des supports en outillage et leur abandon a permis de cerner la variabilité observée en terme de comportements techniques inhérents aux populations de chacun des gisements étudiés. Ainsi, la variabilité diachronique, déjà observée dans les études typologiques précédentes, est interprétée par des conceptions différentes dans la réalisation des schémas opératoires de production lithique et à des activités cynégétiques et domestiques divergentes liées à des contraintes imposées par des contextes topographiques et paléoenvironnementaux variant de la phase ancienne à la phase récente. / This study exposes the results of a technological analysis led for the first time on three lithic assemblages (Tamar Hat, Rassel, Columnata) attributed to Iberomaurusien of Algeria covering the old phase attested at Tamar Hat (20 600 ± 500 BP) and a recent phase at Columnata (10 800 ± 425 BP). The technological analysis brought to light a variability which more seems to assert itself towards the recent phase related to the technical behaviors adopted by the populations of each of the sites. The consideration of the raw material procurement strategies, methods and techniques applied in the debitage as well as the finishing of the tools and there discard allowed to define the observed variability in term of technical behaviors inherent to the populations of each of the studied sites. So, the diachronic variability, already observed in the previous typological studies, is interpreted by different conceptions in the realization of the “chaine opératoire” of lithic production and in divergent hunting and domestic activities linked to imperative topographic and paleoenvironnemental constraints varying from the old to the recent phase.

The goal of the thesis is to find the way how to apply use-wear analysis as well as functional analysis to archaeological assemblages of selected artefacts from Central European archaeological contexts, namely lithics (chipped stone artefacts) and obtain the greatest potential from the analysis. Thesis consists of: current state in the field of functional studies research worldwide, method of use-wear application in connection with material science knowledge, especially tribology. Use-wear analysis is applied to the selected lithic artefacts from Paleolithic to Eneolithic Periods. The results of this work are based on the following microscopic approaches: low power approach (LPA), high power approach (HPA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). There are described and stated differences in potential of above mentioned approaches in connection with specific archaeological artefacts (assemblages of artefacts). The question answered in the conclusion is how to apply the above mentioned methodological approaches in application to various archaeological materials (period, number, context etc.) to obtain the greatest informational potential from the material analysed. Work is concluded with specific terminology from the field of tribology and use-wear analysis...

En Corée, les quartzs sont utilisés intensivement parmi les matières premières au cours de toutes les périodes du Paléolithique. Nous souhaitons vérifier les caractéristiques ou les différences des fonctions d’outils en quartz selon les sites paléolithiques de périodes différentes et de diverses régions par des analyses fonctionnelles. Nous avons également étudié les variations dans l’utilisation d’un type d’outil particulier en fonction des sites : nous avons sélectionné le grattoir. Par les résultats de l'analyse fonctionnelle, des différences d’utilisations des outils en quartz entre les niveaux ne sont pas attestées, il existe une continuité dans l’utilisation au fil des niveaux. Cependant, les utilisations de l’outil en quartz sont légèrement différentes entre les sites analysés. La plupart des grattoirs ont été utilisés dans le travail de la peau. Cependant, nous pouvons observer des traces formées par une variété de tâches sur les grattoirs grands et épais. Autrement dit, nous pouvons attester que l'on utilise les grattoirs différemment en fonction de leurs dimensions. Sur la base de ce travail, d’autres études devraient être effectuées afin de trouver une réponse plus précise sur l’absence de changement entre les niveaux de nos sites d’étude. / It is necessary to examine quartz tools for understanding the Palaeolithic culture in Korea. It is difficult to identify the temporal change pattern of raw materials, assemblages and production techniques of stone tools found in the Palaeolithic sites in Korea ranging from the early to late Palaeolithic, because most stones tools uncovered from these sites are made of quartz. Therefore, this research raises two questions: Is it be possible that the use-wear analysis could reveal the functional change patterns of stone tools in accordance with production dates and environmental changes? How it can be detected the peculiar characteristics of the particular tools found in each site? The results of the use-wear analyses to each cultural layer show no clear temporal differences of raw materials, assemblages and uses of lithic tools. The sites where the excavated tools were mainly composed of quartz exhibited the successive patterns rather than the particular changes between cultural layers. The use-wear analysis suggest that most end-scrapers were used for processing hides. However, it could be observed use-wear pattern formed by processing woods and antlers in large-sized end-scrapers. Therefore, it can be inferred that the use of end-scrapers depended on the size of these tools; but it seems that small-sized end-scrapers produced in the late Palaeolithic were closely related to work hide. In order to seek more clear answers to this result, it will be needed to conduct analyses on many Palaeolithic sites dating to the transitional era distributed in different regions and on the sites yielding tools made of different raw materials. / 선사고고학은 기본적으로 선사인들의 생활과 환경에 대해 이해하기 위한 학문으로, 석기를 왜 만들고, 어떻게 사용했는가 ? 라는 기초적인 질문을 가진다. 다양한 연구 방법 가운데 석기에 남겨진 흔적을 연구하는‘쓴자국 분석’을 바탕으로 이에 대한 해답을 찾고자 한다. 한국에서는 시대와 지역이 다른 대다수의 구석기 유적에서 석영 석기가 높은 비율로 출토된다. 그렇기 때문에 한국의 구석기 문화에 대한 이해를 하기 위해서는 반드시 석영 석기에 대한 이해가 필수적이다. 이번 연구에서는 석영 석기에 대한 쓴자국 분석의 가능성을 확인하고 이를 통해 한국 구석기 유적에서 출토되는 석영석기의 기능과 시기와 환경에 따른 차이를 확인하고자 한다. 그리고 석영석기가 주를 이루는 한국의 구석기 유적에서는 구석기시대 전기에서 후기에 이르기까지 돌감, 석기의 구성, 제작기술 등에 있어 시기적인 변화와 특징을 확인하기 어렵기 때문에 쓴자국 분석을 통해 시기, 환경에 따른 석기의 기능에 있어서 차이 또는 특징들을 확인할 수 없는가? 그리고 유적에 따른 특정 도구의 사용에 차이 또는 특징들이 있는가? 라는 질문으로 시작한다. 그리고 석영석기에 대한 이해를 위해 다양한 실험을 통해 여러 작업재료에 따른 흔적들의 특징을 이해한다.먼저 여러 유물층이 확인되는 김포 풍곡리, 동탄 오산리와 청계리 구석기 유적의 석기들에 대해 분석 및 비교를 하였다. 그 결과 시간의 흐름에 따른 유물층에서는 사용되는 돌감, 석기구성과 사용 등에 있어 각 문화층에 따른 특징적인 차이를 명확하게 확인할 수 없었다. 쓴자국 분석을 통해 차이를 확인하고자 하였으나 석영 석기를 주로 사용하는 유적에서는 유적내 유물층 사이에서는 특별한 변화보다는 연속적인 양상을 볼 수 있었다. 도구와 유적의 기능과의 관계를 이해하기 위해 유적에서 출토되는 다양한 석기 가운데 지역과 시기에 상관없이 주로 출토되는 석기인 밀개에 대한 분석을 위해 7개 유적에서 출토된 밀개를 분석, 비교를 하였다. 그 결과 대부분의 밀개들이 가죽작업에 특징적으로 사용되었던 도구였을 것으로 짐작할 수 있다. 다만 크기가 큰 밀개의 경우 나무, 뿔 등 다양한 작업에 의해 형성된 흔적들을 볼 수 있었다. 즉, 밀개는 도구의 크기에 따라 다르게 사용이 이루어진 것으로 볼 수 있으나 후기 구석기 시대의 작은 크기의 밀개는 가죽 작업과 밀접한 관계가 있는 것으로 보인다. 일부 분석 유적들은 시기적으로는 후기에 해당하는 유적이지만, 후기 구석기로의 돌감선택, 도구의 소형화 등의 전환기적 특징이 확인되지 않았다. 또한 이번 분석 결과를 통해 석영 석기가 주로 출토되는 구석기 유적에서는 시간의 흐름에 따른 지속성을 확인 할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과가 분석이 이루어진 지역적인 특징인지, 석영이라는 돌감의 사용과 관련된 것인지에 대한 연구가 필요하며, 이를 바탕으로 유적의 지속적인 양상들에 대한 좀 더 명확한 해답을 찾기 위해서는 전환기에 해당하는 여러 지역의 다양한 구석기 유적들에 대한 분석과 석영이 아닌 다른 돌감이 주로 활용된 유적에 대한 연구와 비교가 더 필요하다.

Ce mémoire présente une analyse tracéologique, c’est-à-dire l’analyse fonctionnelle d’un objet à partir des microtraces d’usure, appliquée à une collection d’incisives de castor issue des sites iroquoiens de la région de Saint-Anicet: McDonald, Droulers et Mailhot-Curran. L’objectif est de mieux comprendre la fonction de ces objets fréquents sur les sites archéologiques iroquoiens, étant donné que la fonction précise est soit inconnue, soit présumée de façon spéculative. Pour répondre à cette question de recherche, l’analyse se déploie en trois volets : expérimental, analytique et comparatif. Le premier permettra d’éclairer la relation entre différentes matières travaillées et les traces laissées sur les outils en incisives de castor, ainsi que les mouvements effectués et la durée d’utilisation. Le deuxième volet aborde la tracéologie des incisives de castor de nos trois sites à l’étude, à partir des résultats des expérimentations. Le troisième volet de l’étude est dédié à la comparaison inter-sites. Ce projet permet de déterminer à quelles activités les outils sur dents de castor des collections ont servi, puis de comprendre les choix qui les sous-tendent. Cela permet donc de mieux comprendre l’humain derrière l’objet. Les résultats des analyses ont permis de démontrer l’utilisation des incisives de castor iroquoiennes comme outils servant à travailler le bois, mais plus spécifiquement comme outils servant à travailler des bois verts, tendres et mi-durs. De plus, il a été confirmé que les incisives de castor à double fonction, ciseau-racloir, sont le résultat d’outils recyclés ou réutilisés qui servaient à des usages divers. / This dissertation presents a traceological analysis, that is to say the functional analysis of an object based on microtraces of wear, applied to a collection of beaver incisors from Iroquoian sites in the Saint-Anicet region. : McDonald, Droulers and Mailhot-Curran. The goal is to better understand the function of these common objects at Iroquoian archaeological sites, given that the precise function is either unknown or speculated speculatively. To answer this research question, the analysis is deployed in three parts: experimental, analytical and comparative. The first will shed light on the relationship between different materials worked and the traces left on beaver incisor tools, as well as the movements made and the duration of use. The second part addresses the traceology of beaver incisors from our three sites under study, based on the results of the experiments. The third part of the study is dedicated to the inter-site comparison. This project makes it possible to determine what activities the beaver tooth tools in the collections were used for, then to understand the choices behind them. This therefore allows us to better understand the human behind the object. The results of the analyzes demonstrated the use of Iroquoian beaver incisors as tools for working wood, but more specifically as tools for working green, soft and semi-hard wood. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the double-function beaver incisors, chisel-scraper, are the result of recycled or reused tools that were used for various purposes.

Notre étude porte sur les pierres à aiguiser, pierres à affûter, polissoirs et autres outils de l’abrasion découverts dans des sites égéens de l’Âge du Bronze. Durant cette période, les ressources lithiques naturelles égéennes prélevées étaient transformées et employées lors des actions d’abrasion, d’aiguisage, d’affûtage, de polissage. Une connaissance empirique du comportement des roches durant l’utilisation a guidé la sélection des supports afin d’optimiser l’efficacité de l’outillage lors des différentes opérations. Une analyse des provenances nous éclaire sur les modes d’acquisition et de circulation des matériaux ; et une étude complémentaire des propriétés mécaniques des roches nous renseigne sur les paramètres qui ont guidé le choix des matériaux. Les outils diffèrent de par leur matière première mais aussi de par leur morphologie, granulométrie et leurs traces d’usage. Cette recherche propose la mise en place d’une nouvelle analyse des traces, permettant de distinguer les stigmates d’usage et les usures. La méthodologie s’appuie sur des analyses menées en laboratoire (analyses pétrographiques, tribologiques), combinées à des observations sur des outils à différentes échelles. Une fois la fonction des outils identifiée, nous avons considéré les contextes de production et d’utilisation. Enfin, des études ethnographiques et la consultation d’outils archéologiques menées tout au long de nos recherches, nous ont permis de reconstituer les activités, les actions et les gestes liés à la fabrication et à l’utilisation des outils. / This research aims at investigating the supplying strategies of raw materials selected for the implementation of lithic tools in the Aegean sea during the Bronze Age. Furthermore, it addresses the possible exchange networks responsible for the wider distribution of abrasive rocks. Particularly, all steps of the operational process (chaîne opératoire) were investigated from the extraction of raw materials to the use of the stone tools. These research objectives were addressed through an interdiscipinary approach, which combines the petrographic, morphological, and use-wear analysis of lithic tool implements based on both macroscopic and microscopic observations. The purpose of the use wear analysis was the identification of the different functions among these tools within their historical and archaeological context. Additionally, this study developed a precise terminology of manual movements and gestures associated with the use of these tools by combining ethnographical and experimental data with archaeological evidence.