Making impact: Towards discovering early projectile technology in Island South East Asian archaeology

Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi

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Small game hunting in montane rainforests: Specialised capture and broad spectrum foraging in the Late Pleistocene to Holocene New Guinea Highlands

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Thirsty work: Testing the risk reduction model of mid- to late-Holocene stone points with distance decay from freshwater in northern Australia

(2021) Tim Ryan Maloney   HOLOCENE

A standardised classification scheme for the Mid-Holocene Toalean artefacts of South Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2021) Yinika L. Perston et al.   PLoS One

Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena

(2020) Oshan Wedage et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Island migration and foraging behaviour by anatomically modern humans during the late pleistocene to Holocene in Wallacea: New evidence from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2020) Rintaro Ono et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics

(2020) Michelle C. Langley et al.   Science Advances

Technology, adaptation, and mobility in maritime environments in the Philippines from the Late Pleistocene to Early/Mid-Holocene

(2020) Alfred F. Pawlik   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Shifting subsistence patterns from the Terminal Pleistocene to Late Holocene: A regional Southeast Asian analysis

(2019) Rebecca K. Jones et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears: experimental performance data and implications for human evolution

(2019) Annemieke Milks et al.   Scientific Reports

Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago

(2019) Oshan Wedage et al.   Nature Communications

Technological and behavioural complexity in expedient industries: The importance of use-wear analysis for understanding flake assemblages

(2019) Riczar Fuentes et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Earliest hunting scene in prehistoric art

(2019) Maxime Aubert et al.   NATURE

Were tanged points mechanically delivered armatures? Functional and morphometric analyses of tanged points from an Upper Paleolithic site at Jingeuneul, Korea

(2018) Gi-Kil Lee et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Shape does matter: A geometric morphometric approach to shape variation in Indo-Pacific fish vertebrae for habitat identification

(2018) Sofía C. Samper Carro et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo

(2018) M. Aubert et al.   NATURE

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

(2017) Chris Clarkson et al.   NATURE

Use-related or contamination? Residue and use-wear mapping on stone tools used for experimental processing of plants from Southeast Asia

(2017) Hermine Xhauflair et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Late Pleistocene to recent: Human activities in the deep interior equatorial rainforest of Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo

(2017) Vida P.R. Kusmartono et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Oldest human occupation of Wallacea at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, shows broad-spectrum foraging responses to late Pleistocene environments

(2017) Stuart Hawkins et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Extracting residues from stone tools for optical analysis: towards an experiment-based protocol

(2017) Dries Cnuts et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Pressure flaking to serrate bifacial points for the hunt during the MIS5 at Sibudu Cave (South Africa)

(2017) Veerle Rots et al.   PLoS One

Early modern human lithic technology from Jerimalai, East Timor

(2016) Ben Marwick et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Homo floresiensis-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores

(2016) Gerrit D. van den Bergh et al.   NATURE

New Experiments and a Model-Driven Approach for Interpreting Middle Stone Age Lithic Point Function Using the Edge Damage Distribution Method

(2016) Benjamin J. Schoville et al.   PLoS One

New insights on the late Pleistocene–Holocene lithic industry in East Kalimantan (Borneo): The contribution of three rock shelter sites in the karstic area of the Mangkalihat peninsula

(2016) Michel Grenet et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Characterisation of the use-wear resulting from bamboo working and its importance to address the hypothesis of the existence of a bamboo industry in prehistoric Southeast Asia

(2016) Hermine Xhauflair et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Making Sense of Residues on Flaked Stone Artefacts: Learning from Blind Tests

(2016) Veerle Rots et al.   PLoS One

A modified Picro-Sirius Red (PSR) staining procedure with polarization microscopy for identifying collagen in archaeological residues

(2015) Birgitta Stephenson   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Stone tool assemblages and models for the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

(2015) Huw S. Groucutt et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Experimental projectile impact marks on bone: implications for identifying the origins of projectile technology

(2014) Corey A. O'Driscoll et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Are osseous artefacts a window to perishable material culture? Implications of an unusually complex bone tool from the Late Pleistocene of East Timor

(2014) S. O'Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Ballistically anomalous stone projectile points in Australia

(2013) Kim Newman et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Investigating the potential of micro-focus computed tomography in the study of ancient bone tool function: results from actualistic experiments

(2013) Justin Bradfield   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Projectile impact fractures and launching mechanisms: results of a controlled ballistic experiment using replica Levallois points

(2013) Radu Iovita et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Presumptive blood test using Hemastix® with EDTA in archaeology

(2013) Carney D. Matheson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Projectiles and the abuse of the use-wear method in a search for impact

(2013) Veerle Rots et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Earliest Stone-Tipped Projectiles from the Ethiopian Rift Date to >279,000 Years Ago

(2013) Yonatan Sahle et al.   PLoS One

Results of utilitarian and accidental breakage experiments on bone points

(2013) Justin Bradfield et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Swept under the rug: the problem of unacknowledged ambiguity in lithic residue identification

(2012) Gilliane F. Monnier et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The Use of Crossover Immunoelectrophoresis to Detect Human Blood Protein in Soil from an Ambush Scene in Kosovo*,†

(2012) Hugh Tuller et al.   JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES

Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

(2012) F. d'Errico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology

(2012) J. Wilkins et al.   SCIENCE

Assessing the macrofracture method for identifying Stone Age hunting weaponry

(2011) Justin Pargeter   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Hard core and cutting edge: experimental manufacture and use of Magdalenian composite projectile tips

(2011) Jean-Marc Pétillon et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Shape Variation in Aterian Tanged Tools and the Origins of Projectile Technology: A Morphometric Perspective on Stone Tool Function

(2011) Radu Iovita   PLoS One

Long-term perspectives on human occupation of tropical rainforests: An introductory overview

(2011) Huw Barton et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Were bamboo tools made in prehistoric Southeast Asia? An experimental view from South China

(2011) Ofer Bar-Yosef et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Pelagic Fishing at 42,000 Years Before the Present and the Maritime Skills of Modern Humans

(2011) S. O'Connor et al.   SCIENCE

Experimental series and use-wear in bone tools

(2010) Natacha Buc   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Discerning use-related micro-residues on tools: testing the multi-stranded approach for archaeological studies

(2010) Geeske H.J. Langejans   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Frequency and distribution of edge damage on Middle Stone Age lithic points, Pinnacle Point 13B, South Africa

(2010) Benjamin J. Schoville   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Forest contraction in north equatorial Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period

(2010) C. M. Wurster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Composite hunting technologies from the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene, Niah Cave, Borneo

(2009) Huw Barton et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Integration of use-wear with protein residue analysis – a study of tool use and function in the south Scandinavian Early Neolithic

(2009) Anders Högberg et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The Howiesons Poort and MSA III at Klasies River main site, Cave 1A

(2009) P. Villa et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Design and performance of microlith implemented projectiles during the Middle and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Levant: experimental and archaeological evidence

(2009) Alla Yaroshevich et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa

(2009) L. Wadley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hunting with Howiesons Poort segments: pilot experimental study and the functional interpretation of archaeological tools

(2008) Marlize Lombard et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Climate, people and faunal succession on Java, Indonesia: evidence from Song Gupuh

(2008) M.J. Morwood et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Hunting lesions caused by osseous projectile points: experimental results and archaeological implications

(2008) Claire Letourneux et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A new element of trampling: an experimental application on the Level XII faunal record of Bolomor Cave (Valencia, Spain)

(2008) Ruth Blasco et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa

(2008) Lucinda Backwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Stone tools for the hunt: points with impact scars from a Middle Paleolithic site in southern Italy

(2008) Paola Villa et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The Still Bay points of Blombos Cave (South Africa)

(2008) Paola Villa et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE