A quantitative approach to the Neolithization of Southeastern Arabia: new perspectives (and preliminary results) (original) (raw)

2018

Abstract

Lithic projectile points are popular objects of analysis as they reflect both aspects of social identity as well as adaptation as weapon system and hunting strategies. Their abundance in the Neolithic assemblages of the Arabian Peninsula, together with the paucity of stratified datable sites, always conferred to these lithic implements an important diagnostic value. Given the limited comparability and flexibility of traditional arrowhead typology all the projectile points will be analysed with a new systematic description and the adoption of quantitative analytical methods. A new univocal, systematic description of projectile points is proposed based on the observation of technological and morphological change through time and space. This approach also makes it possible to establish whether similarities between individual arrowheads, or groups of arrowheads, can be explained by the rise of different lineages as opposed to historical continuity and functional convergence.

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