fungsi alat batu dari gua pandan, padangbindu sumatera selatan
DESCRIPTION
Stone tool is one of the implement that made and/or use by prehistoric human to procure their life needs. Thereby, has an archaeological data that related on one functional tissue, stone tool can reflect a behavior. By means of that, the study of form and function of the artefact must be answered before move farther to discuss about behavior. Pandan Cave is one of the Indonesian sites that have a variablity of stone artefact, the use-wear of stone tool artefact in this site have never been analysed. Based on that matters, two question can be submitted on this research to explain the function of stone tool from Pandan Cave, that is about stone assemblage especially about the type and use-wear of the stone tool. Furthermore, the stone assemblage especially tools is classified into a various type. After classification was complete, the tool were examined by microscope for use-wear photograph and description. Etnographic and experimental analogy from several book sources was use in interpretation stage. Thereby, the function of usage tool can be estimated. The classification obtained five types of tools with unifacial and low angle edge (I1 type) as the majority type, followed by unifacial with very high angle edge (I3 type), unifacial with high angle edge (I2 type), bifacial with very high angle edge (II3 type), and bifacial with low angle edge (II1 type). Based on use-wear analysis with ethnographical and experimental analogy, the I2 type is close to various activities, such as scraping / chopping wood, scraping plants, perforating fresh skin, cutting / slicing meat, and sawing bone. The I1 type is close to cutting / slicing meat, bone whittling, and scraping / whittling / chopping wood. The I3 type is close to scraping / wood plane and scraping dry skin. The II3 type is close to wood battering activities.Based on all approximation, the individuals / groups of people of Pandan Cave Site are close to hunter and gatherer activities wich directly done through wooden tools. Meanwhile, the stone tools are use to produce the wooden tools. Thereby, the efficient and proportionate stone tools of Pandan Cave Site are not made for portable hunting tools, but easy to carry on the way during migration.TRANSCRIPT
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