H2020Индивидуална стипендия2016–2019

PREKARN · The learning of prehistory of knapping stone

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-07-01 → 2019-06-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 195 455 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Механиката на ученето при изработката на каменни инструменти се анализира чрез експерименти и математически модели. Това помага да се разберат когнитивните способности на праисторическите хора и начинът, по който са предавали знанията си.

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The learning of prehistory of knapping stone

PREKARN’s research seeks to identify aspects of the mechanics of acquisition in stone knapping, such as social learning and imitation, from a new high-resolution, multidisciplinary perspective. The project has primarily focused on using knapping experimentation and integrated mathematic models with empirical data to identify the technical characters that might yield insight into the learning process in stone knapping. PREKARN has addressed two research questions: 1) How do we define technological knowledge? 2) How can we trace knowledge and its transfer in the archaeological records? The research was conducted in two main steps: a) Experimental lithic programme. The results have identified the technical attributes in lithic artefacts that can be used as proxies for knapper knowledge. b) Study of archaeological assemblages. The results have identified knapper skill level in the archaeological record. The project employed a new methodology to define and identify the skill level of the knapper in stone tools. We used an innovative combined qualitative and quantitative approach in knapping sequence and stone tool studies and multivariate statistical analysis in order to identify technological patterns. Our results have opened up a new pathway for the study of the cognitive abilities of prehistoric humans. The European scientific community has benefited from the data generated during PREKARN thanks to an ambitious publication and presentation plan. The plan included participation in workshops and invitations to conferences in leading European centres. Furthermore, PREKARN has generated social benefits through public conferences and educational projects that encourage the study of human evolution among the new generation.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The aim of this study is to identify the mechanics of cultural transmission among Pleistocene human groups and to provide new ideas for the investigation of occupational dynamics through lithic technological approach.Social learning informs us of the cognitive abilities to acquire knowledge transmitted between generations as adaptive strategies. In the archaeological record, the transmission of knowledge and the skills are identified through repetitive patterns, but most of them only remain in the best preserved archaeological material: the lithic tools that hominins made to survive. This project aims to ascertain how hominins learnt through the study of the size of the lithic tools (since novices knappers tend to prouce more small flakes that experienced knappers), and the management and know-how or “savoir-faire” of the knappers preserved into the archaeological collections. This will provide more information about the cognitive evolution of our ancestors.My goal is to study these mechanisms on the basis of two sections:The first part will consist in developing an experimental project to define morphotechnological characters that are crucial to learn the ""appropriate"" size of the tools to made . The second part will be dedicated to track these morphotechnological characters in the archaeological record through an inter-disciplinary study, including technology, spatial and refitting analyses. The data obtained from these analyses will be processed jointly using a multivariate statistical analysis in order to identify technological patterns. These patterns differ between levels and sites, suggesting the possible existence of cultural identities or behavioural predispositions according to each human group.The integrated analysis of these different and complementary aspects guarantees the interdisciplinary and the innovative nature of the project, since this kind of research has never been conducted before at this level.""

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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