전남지방 후기갱신세 주먹도끼의 다양성 연구 - 증산유적을 중심으로 -

The pebble tool tradition did not appear as a standardized change and a total iteration of stone tool any regardless of passage of time. The emergece of new stone artifacts and the diversity of types due to the application of new technologies are manifested. In the typical technological system of making handaxe that emerged in the Early Paleolithic, the various changes that occurred in the Upper Plaistocene are as follows: 1) the change of raw material, 2) the change of the size of the handaxe from large-medium to medium-small, to a size suitable for movement, 3) change of a structure that uses a various size flake or flat block using a high back flake, 4) an increase in the proportion of a specific type, such as pointed handaxe, Finally, along with these 4 technological changes, it is worth noting the way the handaxe is made. It is that the flaking system suitable for the function of stone tools was operated rather than pursuing a typical form. In most of the handaxes in Jeollanam-do, it is difficult to find any that have the regularity or form of the traditionally well-known flaking technique. Although it maintains a type that can be classified as a handaxe, it has a flaking system that makes it difficult to find the boundary between bifacial and unifacial flaking, and it is also vague to set the boundary between a handaxe and a pick. It was judged that the raw material was important enough to know the approximate type of the handaxe from the sellection of the raw material, and the flaking was performed suitable for the function. Handaxe through each of the stages in Upper Pleistocene evolves respectively, and in the process forms modification, Miniaturization, and the Exquisite of Technology. However, these changes are not characterized by a change to something very different technology. It can be understood that this does not appear in the transition of a completely new technology, but rather as a continuation of the technological tradition, which corresponds to a change from the past in evolution. From this point of view, the handaxe of the Jeonnam region can be said to be deeply related to ‘lithic localization’.