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Tracing Adaptation through Tribology and Ethnoarchaeology: Temporal-Resource Allocation and Changes in Pleistocene Bone Tools

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se duration or integrating social and cultural contexts. TRACE addresses these challenges by developing an innovative Temporal-Resource framework that combines archaeology, tribology, ethnography and machine learning. The project will (O1) construct predictive models linking surface textures to tool use duration, (O2) validate them through a Chinese ethnographic bone tool database documenting practices among the Li, Dulong and Oroqen, and (O3) apply these models to six key Chinese sites spanning the late Middle Pleistocene-Early Holocene. By systematically integrating experimental replication, ethnographic evidence and surface texture analyses, TRACE will establish the first reproducible framework for estimating both use duration and function of bone tools. This approach expands the interpretive scope of expedient bone tools beyond the traditional focus on static functions related to lithic production and animal processing, incorporating plant-use replicas, dynamic decision processes, and their broader social and cultural implication. Incorporating Chinese datasets into global compar

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award

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SIGNED

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EU

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209914.56

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EUR