How depositional environments impact the preservation of micro-wear of quartz artifacts: insights from the Oldowan of the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia)
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Galland, Aline
Pleistocene Archaeology Lab, Instituto de Historia, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Calle de Albasanz, 26, San Blas-Canillejas, Madrid 28037 (Spain) and De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Bâtiment B 2, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire CS 50023, 33615 Pessac (France) aline. galland @ u-bordeaux. fr (corresponding autor)
aline.galland@u-bordeaux.fr
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Clemente-Conte, Ignacio
Institució milà i fontanals de estudios en humanidades (IMF), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Carrer de les Egipcíaques, 15, 08001, Barcelona (Spain) ignacio @ imf. csic. es
ignacio@imf.csic.es
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Boisserie, Jean-Renaud
French Centre for Ethiopian Studies (CFEE), CNRS, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Arada sub city, Kebele 11 / 12, JanMeda, PO BOX 5554 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Laboratory Paleontology Evolution Paleoecosystems Paleoprimatology (PALEVOPRIM), CNRS, Université de Poitiers, 6 Rue Michel Brunet, 86000 Poitiers (France) jean. renaud. boisserie @ univ-poitiers. fr
jean.renaud.boisserie@univ-poitiers.fr
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Delagnes, Anne
De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Bâtiment B 2, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire CS 50023, 33615 Pessac (France) anne. delagnes @ u-bordeaux. fr
anne.delagnes@u-bordeaux.fr
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Comptes Rendus Palevol
2026
2026-04-08
25
6
99
124
journal article
10.5852/cr-palevol2026v25a6
1777-571X
19700687
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:415FDDE5-4CF5-4F9D-BF34-5CFB1E6ABEE1
TABLE 2. — Synthesis of taphonomic microwear types and their relative abundance,comparing experiments and the depositional environments in the archaeological record. The scale indicates the degree of development of each microwear category: (-) not observed or only present as highly localized traces, and relative abundance (+, present; ++, abundant; +++, very abundant).| Context | Striation | Microwear Scarring Rounding Microfracturing | Polish |
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| Fluvial transport_Sand | - | + | +++ | +++ | - |
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| Fluvial transport_Silt | - | - | +++ | +++ | - |
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| Fluvial transport_Clay | - | - | +++ | + | +++ |
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| Aeolian abrasion (1min) | - | + | - | - | - |
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| Aeolian abrasion (5min) | - | ++ | - | +++ | - |
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| Channel lags | - | ++ | ++ | +++ | - |
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| Point bar | - | + | + | ++ | - |
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| Floodplain | - | ++ | ++ | +++ | ++ |
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