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Bone needle fragment in LGM from the Shizitan site (China): archaeological evidence and experimental study
Quaternary International • 400 • Published In 2016 • Pages: 140-148
By: Song, Yanhua, Li, Xiaorong, Wu, Xiaorong, Kvavadze, Eliso, Goldberg, Paul, Bar-Yosef, Ofer.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors experimented in making bone needles with flaked stone tools to understand more about the bone needle found at the Shizitan 29 site. The site is briefly described, along with evidence of needle use elsewhere during the Upper Paleolithic.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Experimental data
- Comparative evidence
- Cultural participation
- Clothing manufacture
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- General tools
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- North China Upper Paleolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 29,500-19,500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Shizitan 29, Jixian, Linfen, Shanxi, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Yanhua Song, Xiaorong Li, Xiaohong Wu, Eliso Kvavadze, Paul Goldberg, Ofer Bar-Yosef
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90660977
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ordosian