Sonja TomassoUniversity of Liège | ulg · Service de Préhistoire
Sonja Tomasso
Doctor of Philosophy
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The Aïn Beni Mathar – Guefaït (ABM-GFT) region in Eastern Morocco is the object of anarchaeological, palaeontological, geological and geochronological research project, led by an interna-tional team since 2006. The research in this former fluvio-lacustrine basin, roughly 2000 km2, hasrevealed a significant number of Pleistocene and Holocene sites....
The vast Federmessergruppen site of Lommel-Maatheide, which is located in the Campine region (Northern Belgium), revealed the presence of numerous Final Palaeolithic concentrations situated on a large Late Glacial sand ridge on the northern edge of a contemporary lake. This situation offers a unique possibility for a large-scale functional analysis...
The vast Federmessergruppen site of Lommel-Maatheide, which is located in the Campine region (Northern Belgium), revealed the presence of numerous Final Palaeolithic concentrations situated on a large Late Glacial sand ridge on the northern edge of a contemporary lake. This situation offers a unique possibility for a large-scale functional analysis...
The vast Federmessergruppen site of Lommel-Maatheide, which is located in the Campine region (Northern Belgium), revealed the presence of numerous Final Palaeolithic concentrations situated on a large Late Glacial sand ridge on the northern edge of a contemporary lake. This situation offers a unique possibility for a large-scale functional analysis...
A combined use wear and residue study aims at identifying hafting practices during the Middle Stone Age at Ifri n’Ammar to improve insight in assemblage variability and changes therein through time. Particular attention was devoted to the characteristics of the tanged and non-tanged tools to determine whether these morphological varieties were link...
We present the results of detailed microscopic examination of tanged tools from the site of Ifri n'Ammar. The rock shelter has a particularly rich and well-preserved stratigraphy that has yielded a large variety of tanged tools, thus offering a possibility to test hypotheses on the possible links between tangs and hafting. Earlier methodological wo...
The use of fire is essential for the preparation of hafting adhesives; both are suggested to be a proxy for distinguishing the technological expertise and complex cognition among Palaeolithic populations. While use of fire has been argued to exist from about 1.0 Ma onwards, evidence for adhesives in the Palaeolithic record is rare and fragmented. I...
Tanged tools are the most obvious typological hint of stone tool hafting in the Palaeolithic record. As a result, their appearance has been viewed as the advent of tool hafting, and tangs in younger assemblages are often taken as a sign of technological change. Despite these assumptions, the implications of tanged morphologies for hafting, overall...
Tanged tools have always attracted archaeologists' attention, and have often been considered to mark the beginnings of stone tool hafting. Very little is known, however, of the specifics of hafting these tools. Also the role of tanged tools in toolkits and lithic assemblages, as well as their significance in terms of technological evolution and hum...
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My PhD project investigated the variability in hafting and use of chipped stone tools during the younger part of the Upper Palaeolithic (from c. 30,000 to 13,000 BP). I used a combination of stereomicroscopic and high magnification use-wear analysis for determining how the stone tools were used and for distinguishing between hand-held and hafted tools. The main sites under study were the cave site Hohle Fels (SW Germany), the open air site Maisières-Canal (Belgium), and the rock shelter Abri Pataud (SW France), all of which have yielded rich assemblages from secure chronological contexts. My research took place in the framework of the ERC-funded project "Evolution of stone tool hafting in the Palaeolithic", led by Dr. Veerle Rots at the University of Liège, Belgium.
