出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：In this paper, I explore the relationship between an artifact's biography and the raw material from which it was made. Specifically, I discuss the biographies of groundstone tools from five Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic (3500-2000 BC) sites in lowland Portugal. An analysis of the formal and material characteristics of tools (totalling over 1300) from these sites indicates that the raw material from which a tool was made not only constrained the form and function of that tool, but also determined, to a large extent, whether that tool would be recycled and the context (settlement V5. burial) in which that tool would be ultimately deposited. I suggest that both the material properties and the socio-symbolic associations of different raw materials might explain the biographies of the artifacts from which they were made.
关键词：Geoarchaeology;Polished stone tools;Neolithic;Chalcolithic;Portugal;Artifact biographies;Geoarqueologia;Utiles de piedra pulimentada;Neolítico;Calcolítico;Portugal;Biografías de los artefactos
