TY - JOUR
TI - Lithic analysis of the Middle and Late Upper Palaeolithic in Hungary 
AU - Lengyel, György
TI - Lithic analysis of the Middle and Late Upper Palaeolithic in Hungary 
AB - This paper presents lithic technology studies on the Middle and Late period of the Upper Palaeolithic in Hungary between 26 and 13 ka BP. The studies aimed at describing and then comparing the technological processes from lithic raw material procurement to the formal tool making. An attempt was made to find correlations between technological features and chronological positions of the assemblages to see if lithic technology operated traditionally or opportunistically. The study found that technology was rather shaped toward efficiency with an adaptive behavior. Therefore, in most cases, the way how tools were made is useless to differentiate archaeological cultures, while the tools themselves, especially the armatures, can be markers of cultures as was shown earlier. This study found that the formation of the archaeological record and its variability most likely depended upon the dynamism of human ecology.
VL - 2018
IS - Vol. 86 (2018)
PY - 2018
SN - 0015-573X
C1 - 2199-5915
SP - 5
EP - 157
DO - 10.4467/21995923FQ.18.001.9819
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/folia-quaternaria/artykul/lithic-analysis-of-the-middle-and-late-upper-palaeolithic-in-hungary
KW - Lithic technology
KW - technical behavior
KW - raw material procurement
KW - hunter-gatherers
KW - subsistence strategy