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Ecology of a Tool The Ground Stone Axes of Irian Jaya Indonesia 1st Edition by Pierre Perequin, Anne-Marie Petrequin 9781789253870 178925387X

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Author(s): Pierre Petrequin Anne Marie Petrequin Alexandre Pelletier Michaud

Edition: 1

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Year: 2020

Language: english

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Author: Pierre Perequin, Anne-Marie Petrequin

Ecology of a Tool
The ground stone axes of Irian Jaya (Indonesia)

New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the whole manufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarry extraction to finished tool use. Research on the polished blades of PNG has evolved over the years, following changing philosophies and research agendas. While it is clear that an exceptional sum of information has been gathered, it remains centered on that small part of the Highlands where conditions for field research were more pleasant than elsewhere. This presentation of Irian Jaya axes therefore tackles a topic that remains mostly unexplored. Until now, stone tool research in New Guinea has followed an anthropocentric approach, in which tools are seen more as vectors for social exchanges than as means of acting on the environment. This monograph takes a different approach. Here, polished stone blades are placed at the center of the world, between, on one side, the transformed natural environment, and, on the other, the social and economic environment. This approach allows for a suggestion of new avenues of inference in archaeology, as well as to test and abandon existing ones. In this volume, the stone blade is considered as a living being, existing in balance within its biotope. This idea is not far removed from the beliefs of Irian Jaya farmers, for whom life animates certain objects of their material culture. Following a brief presentation of Irian Jaya, the function of polished stone blades in Irian Jaya societies and the distribution of hafting styles is described, defined and studied along with the quarrying zones and the areas of diffusion and use of their production. The different trends in each area of polished blade production and exchanges are also noted. Finally, it concludes with a discussion of the ethnoarchaeological potential of these contemporary observations.

Table contents:

1. Ground stone blades as means of social and technical reproduction
A history of Irian Jaya in the global economy
Raw material determinism
Axes and adzes
Variability of hafting forms
Stone blades, at the heart of social reproduction
Stone blades as anthropomorphic symbols of the realm of men
2. The Yeleme quarries (Kp. Paniai) et the ground stone blades of Central Irian Jaya
Rocks from the upper Ye-I River
The Wang-Kob-Me quarry
The Brahire quarry in Ye-Ineri
Blocks from the bed of the Ye-I River
From roughout to axe in Wano country
The Axe Trail
Accessing roughouts: the Yamo Dani perspective
From roughout to axe among the Yamo Dani
The expansion of the Western Dani and the acceleration of exchanges
The Baliem and the realm of adzes
Axes and adzes, the prestige of stone blades
Partners and strangers: the limitations of exchanges
3. Material and social techniques of the Dani: black rocks and greenschists
The black rocks of Gomburu (Kp. Paniai)
The black rocks of Tagi (Kp. Jayawijaya)
Black rock axes and sacred objects
The quarries of Awigobi and greenschist blades
Ye-yao, the exchange axes
4. Adzes of the Eastern Highlands (Kp. Jayawijaya)
From rock to adze in Langda
Exploiting rocks from the river
A production controlled by specialists
The learning process
Grinding and hafting
Exchanges and diffusion
Stone blade production in the Phu Valley and the westward expansion of adzes
The archaeological sites of Koropun
Yamyhl, Red Digul and the Seashell Trail
5. Ormu-Wari and the Lowlands axes
The Mumugo Valley and schist axes
Ormu and the marriage axes
Quarrying context in the Cyclops Mountains
Knapping and pecking
Grinding and varnishing
Technical and social production in Ormu
Village specialization and exchanges
6. The ground stone blades of Irian Jaya, a synthesis
A shared background: the balance between natural environment, modes of subsistence and population density
Rocks and types of sources
Quarry access and the social context of quarrying
Quarrying techniques
Duration of the quarrying events
From rock to ground stone blade: segmentation of the chaîne opératoire
Shaping roughouts: raw material determinism
Manufacture and specialization
Grinding and grinding stones
Axes and adzes
Degree of grinding
Length of the stone blades
Handles for felling tools
Circulation of the blades
Stone blades for the living
7. Postface
Metal versus stone
Ceramic techniques and acculturation processes
Supernatural beings and cannibalistic cuisine
Gifting signs
Afterword to the English edition
Bibliography
Films