An ethnographic experiment of endscraper curation rate among hadiya hideworkers, ethiopia

摘要: The extent of reduction in retouched stones serves as a proxy for curation. In the archaeological record, intensity must be inferred from discarded remnants tools. contemporary use scraper blades by hideworkers southern Ethiopia provides archaeologists rare opportunities where original tool dimensions can directly measured and other variables investigated. This study closely examines previously suggested factors inter-group variability degree hidescraper curation amongst Hadiya. Potential sources are controlled through provision experimental blanks to groups associated with different raw material access costs. Results strengthen previous conclusions that differential cost significantly affects rates. However, whether blank size represents major source such could not discerned, group higher costs did exploit potential utility experimen...