Blade(let) Makers and Communities of Practice at Kharaneh IV

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Year: 
2019
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ARF Brownbag Series, UC Berkeley
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$0.00
Place published: 
Jordan
Abstract: 
Educational processes like teaching and learning are important components of enculturational processes. The act of learning a skill, practicing the skill in daily life, and transmitting a body of knowledge is a dynamic and ever-changing representation of sociocultural practices that reflects the doxa and habitus of a practicing group. In this talk, I will discuss the current methods I employ to understand the transmission of flintknapping knowledge from the Early Epipalaeolithic into the Middle Epipalaeolithic at the site of Kharaneh IV, Jordan. By combining photogrammetry, refitting analysis, typo-technological analysis, and experimental archaeology I work towards a more holistic understanding of the varied aspects of knowledge transmission during the Epipalaeolithic and identifying a community or multiple communities of practice.