Osseous Technology and Behavioral Narratives – Additional Context from Katanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Archaeology remains the preeminent analytical approach in elucidating the origins of modern humans given its innate study of behavioral markers and their temporal associations. Insofar as the field of anthropology is concerned, drawing inferences between these two variables represents the core of archaeology’s contributions to the evolutionary narratives differentiating anatomically modern humans (AMH), and our relatives of the hominin lineage. Given the punctuated and often fragmentary data sources archaeologists draw from, as well as differences in epistemology, however, a multitude of evolutionary narratives exist that vary in how, where, and why AMH display certain anatomical or behavioral paradigms. For this paper, I will focus on contributing to the corpus of research on the behavioral variable of organic tools (particularly bone), with the goal of reviewing and corroborating existing evidence, as well as adding an enigmatic artifact to this corpus.

Author

• Wedertz, Richard

Language

• English

Keyword

• Middle Paleolithic
• Bone tools
• Katanda
• Middle Stone Age

Date created

• 2024

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Hominid Paleobiology

Degree

• M.S.

Advisor

• Brooks, Alison S

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/dz010r06p