Reaping the rewards: the potential of well designed methodology, a comment on Vardi et聽al. (Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 1716-1724) and Goodale et聽al. (Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 1192-1201)

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• 作者：W. James Stemp^a ; ^{jstemp@keene.edu} ; Adrian A. Evans^b ; ^{a.a.evans@bradford.ac.uk} ; Harry J. Lerner^c ; ^{harry.lerner.1@ulaval.ca}
• 关键词：Lithic use-wear ; Quantification ; Sickle blades ; Near East
• 刊名：Journal of Archaeological Science
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：137_03054403
• 类别：soc
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：39
• 期：6
• 页码：1901-1904
• 文件大小：122 K

摘要

The recent articles by Vardi et聽al., 鈥淭racing sickle blade levels of wear and discard patterns: a new sickle gloss quantification method鈥?(Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 1716-1724), and Goodale et聽al., 鈥淪ickle blade life-history and the transition to agriculture: an early Neolithic case study from Southwest Asia鈥?(Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 1192-1201), are two papers that seek to address interesting archaeological questions through the development of new approaches to measuring the duration of stone tool use. Here comment is made on the fashion in which research design and analytic procedures contribute to limit the capabilities of each of the techniques presented. Whilst the authors support the investigation of novel techniques, in order for the results of any use-wear analysis to be accepted as reliable the methods employed must be demonstrably sound.