A tanged point and two blade technologies from Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland
Abstract
We describe a tanged point and a blade technology from Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay, Scotland that provides further support to a Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene presence in Scotland prior to the establishment of the narrow blade Mesolithic industry. The existing evidence for a Late Pleistocene or early Holocene presence comes from isolated finds of tanged points (Tiree, Shieldig, Brodgar), undated assemblages from disturbed contexts that are most likely Late Pleistocene in date (Howburn, Kilmefort Cave), and undated assemblages containing broad blade microliths (e.g., Glenbatrick, Morton). This article provides a summary of recent excavations and the stratigraphy at Rubha Port an t-Seilich, and a detailed analysis the lithic blade blank production at the site, which is, we believe, the first application of a chaîne opératoire based approach to a Scottish assemblage. The study includes comparisons with contemporary assemblages from north-western Europe. The significance of the Rubha Port an t-Seilich finds is threefold: (1) the relative large size of the assemblage that allows a technological analysis; (2) the finds partially derive from a stratified context below a narrow blade assemblage, associated with radiocarbon dates 9301-7750 cal. BP; and (3) further excavation can increase the sample size and potentially expose an in situ Late Pleistocene or early Holocene cultural horizon.
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Ballin, T.B., Saville, A., Tipping, R. & Ward, T. 2010, An Upper Palaeolithic flint and chert assemblage from Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: first results. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 22: 323-360. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0092.2010.00352.x
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Ballin, T.B., Saville, A. Tipping, R., Ward, T., Housley, R., Verrill, L. Bradley, M., Wilson, C., Lincoln, P. and MacLead, A. 2018, Reindeer Hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire. Oxford: Archaeopress, 144 p.
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Berg-Hansen, I. M. 2018, Chapter 4. Continuity and change in Late Glacial and Postglacial social networks; knowledge transmission and blade production methods in Ahrensburgian and Early Mesolithic North West Europe. In: The Technology of Early Settlement in Northern Europe - Transmission of Knowledge and Culture.(Vol. 2) (Knutsson, K., Knutsson, H., Apel, J., & Glørstad, H., Eds.), Equinox press, Sheffield, p. 63-98.
Berg-Hansen, I. M. 2019, Alt Duvenstedt LA121 revisited - blade technology in Ahrensburg culture. In: The Final Palaeolithic of Northern Eurasia. Proceedings of the Amersfoort, Schleswig and Burgos UISPP Commission Meetings. (Eriksen, B.V., Rensink, E., & Harris, S. Eds.), Ludwig, Kiel, p. 169-191.
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Conneller, C., Little, A., Garcia-Diaz, V. & Croft, S. 2018, The Worked Flint. In: Star Carr Volume 2: Studies in Technology, Subsistence and Environment (Milner, N., Conneller, C. & Taylor, B., Eds.), White Rose University Press, York: p. 493-534. doi:10.22599/book2.u
Damlien, H. 2015, Striking a difference? The effect of knapping techniques on blade attributes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 63: 122-135. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.08.020
Damlien, H. 2016, Between tradition and adaption. Long-term trajectories of lithic tool-making in south Norway during the postglacial colonization and its aftermath (c. 9500-7500 cal. BC). (unpublished) PhD thesis, Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, 570 p.
Damlien, H., Berg-Hansen, I.M., Zagorska, I., Kalniņš, M., Nielsen, S.V., Koxvold, L.U., Bērziņš, V. & Schülke, A. 2018, A Technological crossroads: Exploring diversity in the pressure blade technology of Mesolithic Latvia. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 37(3): 229-246. doi:10.1111/ojoa.12139
David, E., & Sørensen, M. 2016, First insights into the identification of bone and antler tools used in the indirect percussion and pressure techniques during the early postglacial. Quaternary International, 423(22): 123-142. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.135
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Finlay, N., Finlayson, B., & Mithen, S. 2000, The primary technology: its character and inter-site variability. In: Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Archaeology. The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 1988-98. Vol. 2 (Mithen, S., Ed.), McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge: p. 547-569.
Inizan, M.-L., Reduron-Ballinger, M., Roche, H., & Tixier, J. 1999, Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone. (Préhistoire de la Pierre Taillée Vol. 5. Cercle de Recherches et d'Etudes Préhistoriques, Nanterre, 189 p.
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Pelegrin, J. 2000, Les techniques de débitage laminaire au Tardiglaciaire: critères de diagnose et quleques réflexions. In: L'Europe Centrale et Septentrionale au Tardiglaciaire. Actes de la Table-ronde internationale de Nemours, 13-16 mai 1997. Mémoires du Musée de Préhistoire d’Ile-de-France 7, Vol. 7. (Valentin, B., Bodu, P.,& Christensen, M. Eds.), Association pour la promotion de la recherche archéologique en Île-de-France, Nemours: p. 73-86. (in French) ("Blade production techniques in Late Glacial: the diagnostic criteria and some reflections")
Perdaen, Y., Crombé, P., & Sergant, J. 2008, Lithic technology and the cultural identity of Early Mesolithic groups. Current Anthropology, 49(2): 317-327. doi:10.1086/527438
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Rust, A. 1943, Die Alt- und Mittelsteinzeitlichen Funde von Stellmoor. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster, 240 p. (in German) ("The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Finds of Stellmoor")
Saville, A. 2004, The material culture of Mesolithic Scotland. In: Mesolithic Scotland and its Neighbours. The Early Holocene Prehistory of Scotland, its British and Irish Context, and some Northern European Perspectives (Saville, A., Ed.), Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh: p. 185-220. doi:10.1002/jqs.917
Saville, A. & Ballin, T.N. 2009, Upper Palaeolithic evidence from Kilmefort Cave, Argyll: A re-evaluation of the lithic assemblage. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 139: 9-45. URL: http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/view/9745
Saville, A., Hardy, K., Miket, R. and Ballin, T.B. (Eds.) 2012, An Corran, Staffin, Skye: A rockshelter with Mesolithic and later occupation. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports (SAIR), Vol. 51. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 101 p. URL: http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/sair/issue/view/81
Schild, R. 1980, Introduction to Dynamic Technological Analysis of chipped stone assemblages. In: Unconventional Archaeology: New Approaches and Goals in Polish Archaeology (Schild, R., Ed.), Wrocław: Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej (Polska Akademia Nauk), Zakład Narodowy im, Ossolińskich: p 57-87.
Sørensen, M. 2006a, The chaîne opératoire applied to Arctic archaeology. In: Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology 2004 (Arneborg, J. & Grønnow, B., Eds.), Dynamics of Northern Societies. Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen: p. 31-44.
Sørensen, M. 2006b, Rethinking the lithic blade definition: Towards a dynamic understanding. In: Skilled Production and Social Reproduction. Aspects of Traditional Stone-Tool Technologies. Proceedings of a Symposium in Uppsala, August 20–24, 2003 (Apel, J. & Knutsson, K., Eds.), Stone Studies Vol. 2. Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis (SAU), Uppsala: p. 277-296.
Sørensen, M. 2008, Spatial analysis by dynamic technological classification: A case study from the Palaeolithic - Mesolithic transition in Scandinavia. In: Technology in Archaeology. Proceeding of the SILA Workshop: The Study of Technology as a method for gaining insight into social and cultural aspects of Prehistory, Vol. 14 (Sørensen, M. & Desrosiers, P., Eds.), The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen: p.107-124.
Sørensen, M. 2013, Dynamical technological classification of Scandinavian lithic blade industries. unpublished manuscript. Nordic Blade Technology Network. March 2013. 7 p.
Sørensen, M., Rankama, T., Kankaanpää, J., Knutsson, K., Knutsson, H., Melvold, S., Eriksen, B.V. & Glørstad, H. 2013, The first eastern migrations of people and knowledge into Scandinavia: Evidence from studies of Mesolithic technology, 9th-8th millennium BC. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 46: 1-38. doi:10.1080/00293652.2013.770416
Taute, W. 1968, Die Stielspitzen-Gruppen im Nördlichen Mittel-Europa. Böhlau Verlag, Köln & Graz, 326 p. (in German) ("The Tanged Point Groups in Northern Central Europe")
Waddington, C. 2015, Mesolithic re-colonisation of Britain following the drowning of North Sea landscapes. In: No Stone Unturned: Papers in honour of Roger Jacobi (Ashton, N. & Harris, C., Eds), Lithic Studies Society, London: p. 221-32
Waddington, C., Torben, B & Eng, R. 2017, Missing the point: a response to Conneller et al. (2016) and the mis-characterisation of narrow blade chronology in Britain. Mesolithic Miscellany, 25(1): 26-32.
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Berg-Hansen, I., Wicks, K., & Mithen, S. (2019). A tanged point and two blade technologies from Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland. Journal of Lithic Studies, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.2892
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