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Testing the Reality of a “Living Floor” with Archaeological Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Harold L. Dibble ,
Philip G. Chase ,
Shannon P. McPherron  and
Alain Tuffreau
Harold L. Dibble
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philip G. Chase
Affiliation:
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Shannon P. McPherron
Affiliation:
Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817-0916
Alain Tuffreau
Affiliation:
ERA 37 du CRA, UMR 9944, Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, Nationale Université des Sciences et Technologies, Lille, France
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Abstract

No matter how “pristine” an archaeological assemblage may appear, archaeologists should always be concerned with documenting the degree and nature of possible postdepositional disturbances. This paper outlines a number of tests that can be applied to archaeological, vs. geological, data to assess these effects, and their use is illustrated in an excavation of a Lower Paleolithic site in France. Although this site was originally thought to contain a possible “living floor” reflecting relatively little postdepositional disturbance, the tests applied here clearly show that both the lithic and faunal components in large part reflect secondary deposits and most probably are only coincidentally associated. From a methodological perspective, this study clearly demonstrates the power of these tests for assessing the taphonomic history of any site containing lithic and faunal remains, and the use of this particular example illustrates the need for these kinds of tests to be applied at the time of excavation.

No importa cuán intacto un conjunto arqueológico pueda aparecer, los arqueólogos siempre deben documentar el grado y la naturaleza de posibles perturbaciones post-deposicionales. Este artículo delinea varias pruebas que pueden ser aplicadas a datos arqueológicos versus geológicos para determinar estas efectos e ilustra su uso con la excavación de un sitio del Paleolítico Inferior en Francia. Aunque se pensó originalmente que este sitio contema un posible “piso de habitación,” reflejando relativamente poca perturbación post-deposicional, las pruebas aquí aplicadas demuestran claramente que tanto los componentes líticos como los faun73x00eD;sticos reflejan en gran parte depósitos secundarios y que probablemente están asociados en forma coincidental. Desde una perspectiva metodológica, este estudio révéla el poder de estas pruebas para determinar la historia tafonomica de cualquier sitio que contenga restos liticos y faunísticos, y el uso de este ejemplo en particular ilustra la necesidad de aplicar estas pruebas durante la excavación.

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American Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 629 - 651
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