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THE ORIGINS OF BONE TOOL TECHNOLOGIES KARTONIER...

This volume is a collection of papers from the conference titled Retouching the Palaeolithic:
Becoming Human and the Origins of Bone Tool Technology held in October 2015 at Schloss
Herrenhausen in Hannover  Germany. With major funding from the Volkswagen Foundation's Symposia
and Summer School initiative  the conference brought together an international group of
scientists from an array of research backgrounds to explore the origins and development of bone
tool technologies in prehistory  specifi cally retouchers  compressors and percussors used in
various lithic knapping activities. The diverse conference attendance generated an assortment
of perspectives on bone tool use covering western Europe to the Levant  from the Lower
Palaeolithic to Neolithic times. Collectively  these papers provide an overview on how the
integration of bone tools with other Palaeolithic technologies in uenced human subsistence and
other socio-economic behaviours over time and space. In the end  this volume is not just about
bone tools. Rather  this compilation is intended to stimulate broader ideas on technology and
innovation  for the ability and desire to create new tools truly lies at the core of what makes
us human.

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