Ancient Adhesives - A window on prehistoric technological complexity

Project Information

AncientAdhesives

Grant agreement ID: 804151

DOI 10.3030/804151

EC signature date 16 January 2019

Start date 1 February 2019

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 926,00

EU contribution € 1 499 926,00

Coordinated by

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Measuring ancient technological complexity and its cognitive implications using Petri nets

Author(s): S. Fajardo, P.R.B. Kozowyk, G.H.J. Langejans
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, Page(s) 14961, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42078-1

Identifying Palaeolithic birch tar production techniques: challenges from an experimental biomolecular approach

Author(s): Kozowyk, P.R.B., Baron, L.I., Langejans, G.H.J.
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, Page(s) 14727, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41898-5

Comparing the Formation and Characteristics of Use-Wear Traces on Flint, Chert, Dolerite and Quartz

Author(s): Alessandro Aleo
Published in: Lithic Technology, Issue 48:2, 2022, Page(s) 130-148, ISSN 0197-7261
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2022.2103297

Middle Paleolithic complex technology and a Neandertal tar-backed tool from the Dutch North Sea

Author(s): Marcel J. L. Th. Niekus, Paul R. B. Kozowyk, Geeske H. J. Langejans, Dominique Ngan-Tillard, Henk van Keulen, Johannes van der Plicht, Kim M. Cohen, Willy van Wingerden, Bertil van Os, Bjørn I. Smit, Luc W. S. W. Amkreutz, Lykke Johansen, Annemieke Verbaas, Gerrit L. Dusseldorp
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 116/44, 2019, Page(s) 22081-22087, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907828116

The dynamic lives of osseous points from Late Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic Doggerland: A detailed functional study of barbed and unbarbed points from the Dutch North Sea

Author(s): Alessandro Aleo, Paul R. B. Kozowyk, Liliana I. Baron, Annelou van Gijn, Geeske H. J. Langejans
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 18(8), 2023, Page(s) 1-31, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288629

Scaling Palaeolithic tar production processes exponentially increases behavioural complexity

Author(s): Kozowyk, P.R.B., Fajardo, S., Langejans, G.H.J.
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, Page(s) 14709, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41963-z

Modelling and measuring complexity of traditional and ancient technologies using Petri nets

Author(s): Sebastian Fajardo, Jetty Kleijn, Frank W. Takes, Geeske H. J. Langejans
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 17(11), 2022, Page(s) e0278310, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278310

Understanding preservation and identification biases of ancient adhesives through experimentation

Author(s): Paul R. B. Kozowyk, Annelou L. van Gijn, Geeske H. J. Langejans
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 12/9, 2020, Page(s) 209, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-020-01179-y

Other (2)

Archaeological Adhesives

Author(s): G.H.J. Langejans; A. Aleo; Sebastian Fajardo; P.R.B. Kozowyk
Published in: Oxford Research Encyclopaedia Anthropology, Issue Continuous, 2022, Page(s) 1-54, ISBN 9780190854584
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.198

Reply to Schmidt et al.: Interpretation of Paleolithic adhesive production: Combining experimental and paleoenvironmental information

Author(s): Paul R. B. Kozowyk, Geeske H. J. Langejans, Gerrit L. Dusseldorp, Marcel J. L. Th. Niekus
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 117/9, 2020, Page(s) 4458-4459, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1920933117

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Berkenpek uit de Noordzee. Een zeldzame vondst werpt licht op het gedrag van neanderthalers

Author(s): Amkreutz, L., Dusseldorp, G.L., Langejans, G.H.J., Niekus, M.
Published in: Archeologie in Nederland, Issue 4(1), 2020, Page(s) 10-17, ISSN 2542-5455
Publisher: Uitgeverij Matrijs

Archaeological Podocarpus tar supports the cognitive complexity of Neanderthals

Author(s): Paul R.B. Kozowyk
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 120(7), 2023, Page(s) e2221676120, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2221676120