S13B



S13B

Room 2.19

Rethinking lithic taxonomy and technological variability in the Middle Palaeolithic: Toward Eurasian shared analytical frameworks / Repenser la taxonomie lithique et la variabilité technologique au Paléolithique moyen : vers des cadres analytiques partagés à l’échelle eurasiatique

Session organizers: Francesca Romagnoli, Davide Delpiano, Malgorzata Kot, Marcel Weiss

S13B​​, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 15:30, Room 2.19

9:00-9:20 - Introduction  / Romagnoli, Delpiano, Kot, Weiss

9:20-9:40 - Beyond Lithic Labels: Building a Shared Framework for Technological Archaeology / Romagnoli F.

9:40-10:00 - From Subjective Taxonomies to Measurable Distance: New Methods For Formalizing Similarity In Lithic Assemblages / Herzlinger et al.

10:00-10:20 - From Regional Traditions to Broader Patterns: Testing Lithic Labels in the Middle Paleolithic / Delpiano D.

10:20-10:40 - Chacun Son Site: Problèmes Taxonomiques Des Unités Du Paléolithique Moyen En Hongrie / Mester Z.

10:40-11:00 - Quina or not Quina? Same old song in the Rhône Valley: the example of the site of the Abri du Maras (South-East France, MIS 5, level 5) / Vaissié et al.

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Middle Paleolithic Quartz Industries in Southeast Europe: Technological Variability and Regional Context / Mihailović et al.

11:50-12:10 - Where Did All the Bifaces Go? Middle Palaeolithic Assemblages from Raj Cave (Świętokrzyskie, Poland) / Kot et al.

12:10-12:30 - The Middle Paleolithic Cultural Stratigraphy at Hohle Fels Cave in SW Germany / Conard & Lech

12:30-12:50 - Blades Without Borders: When Levallois Fails in the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic / Wojtczak D.B.

12:50-13:10 - Laminar Reduction Strategies in the Middle Paleolithic of Western Central Asia: Levantine Connections / Kharevich et al.

13:10-13:30 - Flake sharp-edge productivity and the appearance of Levallois technology in Western Europe: the case of Orgnac 3 (MIS 9-8, southern France) / Johnson et al.

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Snakes And Ladders: Reconstructing Lithic Tool Maintenance Through Module Flakes Framework From Two Late Middle Paleolithic Sites in Armenia / Nora et al.

14:50-15:10 - Approaching Retouched Tool Taxonomies: Lessons from Geometric Morphometrics / Bustos-Pérez G.

15:10-15:30 - Final discussion