Crítica a la cultura fósil. La estructura económica como unidad de análisis del cambio cultural paleolítico
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Nowadays, technological and processual interpretation of the lithic record has been generalized, partly displacing theclassical typological approach. Thereby the lithic variability and technological change have started to be contextualizedin the economical and environmental processes surrounding the lithic tool production. However, typology is still the onlyargument when discussing about cultural evolution, since the traditional sequence divided into “fossil cultures”, eachcharacterized by distinct and recurrent “guide fossil” assemblages, is widely applied. Thus, in this paper we argue thatit is necessary to create a new palaeo-cultural model that more properly suits the Palaeolithic record, getting rid of thesacredness of the object, challenging the direct relationship between morpho-types and cultural traditions and suppressingthe lithic record privilege as the only marker of cultural shift. In conclusion, we propose the economic structure asthe analytical unit to approach the Palaeolithic cultural change.
Source: Complutum
Author: Policarpo Sánchez Yustos
Institution: Universidad de Valladolid
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2057560801