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392 asian perspectives 44(2) fall 2005 . . wholeheartedly endorse this particular con- port’s (2003) identification of rattan pro- clusion. cessing based on experimental stone tools A few details of Mijares’ instructive and utilized by Cagayan Valley Negrito hunter- useful study could be queried on technical gatherers in traditional plant-working tasks. grounds. His operational definition of stone The research design of these experiments, tools would exclude those with steep edges, directed in the 1980s by the Australian ar- which might indeed be considered opti- chaeologist Johan Kamminga, is impeccable mal for certain tasks like scraping, as well as it involved a large number of stone arti- as ‘‘microliths,’’ which would have been facts applied by experienced forest dwellers hafted prior to use. The seventeen experi- to plant materials during and immediately mental flakes of andesite and chert may not after their extraction. My purpose in rais- be considered a su‰ciently large reference ing the comparison is not some egregious assemblage to determine a reliable use- belittlement of Mijares’ research based on wear signature, particularly in view of the reports that have appeared subsequently, quantity of cross-indexed variables (arti- but to make the point that advances in fact lithology, type
Asian Perspectives – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Nov 21, 2005
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