The Handle Core Concept by Sandra Söderlind (.PDF)
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The Handle Core Concept: Lithic Technology and Knowledge Transmission in Mesolithic Northern Europe by Sandra Söderlind
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Overview: This work deals with topics related to mobility, contacts and transmission of knowledge. The study of these topics regarding the past can promote an understanding of the social implications of migration, communication and learning today through long-term perspectives of change. This volume focuses on these topics in the Mesolithic by analyzing a specialized lithic concept known previously from Scandinavia and Northern Germany. The implementation of the Handle Core Pressure Concept (HCPC) is based on a pressure technique to produce small regular blades from single-fronted cores, often utilized in slotted bone points. The use of pressure technique means that the HCPC requires social learning for maintenance and diffusion of the tradition.
The research questions focus on three aspects of the HCPC: technology, chronology and the transmission of knowledge that are involved in the diffusion process. Materials from across Northern Europe have been studied and analyzed. The results show that the morphology of the materials is similar across Europe, but that there are differences in the technological choices made by knappers in different parts of the area. These variations relate to the core preparation. The technological differences are also connected to two different chronologies that are centered east and west of the Baltic Sea, which would indicate two separate technological and social traditions.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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