Thread by @AnnemiekeMilks

It's #ArchaeologyWoodWednesday and now that I've read SO MANY papers for our new Glossary (for those researching wood technologies of stone tool using cultures) I thought it might be nice to highlight a few of the papers that showcase the richness of this field of study. 1/?

Several of our terms come from @paloma_vidal_m et al's paper looking at woodworking amongst prehispanic peoples of the Canary Islands. Importantly, terms are well-defined so we know what is being described and imaged in the traceological analysis sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Another source of definitions comes from @CorreUriburi et al particularly in relation to their work on wood tools from the Neolithic lake site of La Draga. They show how key experimental reference samples are, and do a really neat tool mark analysis
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Use-wear analysis on wood tools presents the usual problems + questions. Laura Caruso Fermé, based in Argentina, has been working to crack the problem over many publications. For example this one on collections from Holocene Patagonian hunter-gatherers

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Our Schöningen team have had various discussions about how to define terms for marks that are made by the same tools but using different gestures. Lozovskaya + Lozovski's woodworking experiments on the Russian Mesolithic provides key images + ideas researchgate.net/publication/26…

Another area of use-wear research on wood tools is in respect to the use of boomerangs as both retouchers and as weapons. Two interesting papers have added to our understanding of impact marks on wood: @eva_martellotta @Dr_MCLangley et al's paper
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And this recent paper looking at morphology, manufacturing and use of boomerangs from Cooper Creek/Kinipapa also contributes to our understanding of impact damage on wood tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A great source of wood tools is the Mesolithic site of Star Carr. Work by Masie Taylor, Mike Bamforth, Amiée Little @YEARCentre has extended knowledge of manufacturing techniques like splitting wood. Highly recommend a read through the free volume:
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Claire Alix and colleagues have worked on wood artefacts from North America, including frozen contexts, and I really like the approach of mapping the tools, selection of compression wood for arrow shafts, etc. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arct…

There's a beautifully illustrated chapter by @HPiezonka and colleagues on the importance of plant use (including wood) amongst present-day hunter-forager-fishers of the Siberian taiga in the new volume The missing woodland resources:
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Poggetti Vecchi, where Neanderthals selected box wood and used fire to shape wooden tools remains such a key locale for understanding how much we usually miss in the Palaeolithic archaeological record. Experiments played a key role in interpretation: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

What was great about developing the referenced glossary was realising that although so much of the work remains site-specific, teams are more and more able to draw on these publications from various experts around the globe!