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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

restos de talla

English translation:

chipping debris

Added to glossary by liz askew
Oct 8, 2011 17:23
12 yrs ago
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Spanish term

restos de talla

Spanish to English Social Sciences Archaeology
The complete sentence is:
En el interior de las estancias, asociados a manchas de cenizas, han aparecido restos de talla encaminada a la elaboración de herramientas de trabajo fabricadas en piedra (sílex y cuarcita).

"Chips from carving"? Perhaps but it doesn't sound right to me.
Thank you for your help
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 chipping remains
5 stone chips and flakes
4 +1 lithic remains
5 Debitage
4 evidernce of cut and scrape marks
4 evidence of chiseling
References
Two links
Change log

Oct 9, 2011 20:02: liz askew changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/754037">Lynne Gleghorn's</a> old entry - "restos de talla"" to ""chipping debris""

Discussion

liz askew Oct 8, 2011:
lithic scatters > restos líticos
www.proz.com › KudoZ home › English to Spanish › Archaeology30 Oct 2003 – lithic scatters. Spanish translation: restos líticos ...

Proposed translations

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chipping remains

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:5hVpM-63x3wJ:www.i...

here

talla = chipping

Chipping Remains as an Indication of Cultural Change at ... - JSTOR
www.jstor.org/stable/25146664
by D Osborne - 1965 - Cited by 1 - Related articles
CHIPPING REMAINS AND CULTURAL CHANGE 31 ated, yielding the results presented and dis cussed below. The characteristics noted and recorded were ...



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OR

chipping debris

Paleoindian Period - UT Knoxville | Frank H. McClung Museum
mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permanent/native/paleoindian.shtml
STONE TOOL MANUFACTURE Tools and chipping debris recreate the archaeological remains of stone tool manufacture. They are exhibited in a glass-covered ...

restos = remains/debris

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Gran Dolina - Lower Paleolithic Cave in ... - Archaeology - About.com
archaeology.about.com/od/gterms/qt/gran_dolina.htm
Gran Dolina has 18-19 meters of archaeological deposits, including 19 levels ... were stone core-choppers, chipping debris, animal bone and hominin remains. ...

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Prehistoric life on the Mississippi floodplain: stone tool use, ... - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0226951510...Richard W. Yerkes - 1987 - History - 279 pages
... 43a Notch/Concave Knife 45/88 Chipping Debris V 15 Notch v 45 Straight-edged Knife V 84 Lamellar Blade V 1 1 Notch/Round Knife 47/ 1 08 Chipping Debris ...

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AREA INDIAN NAMES - WEST ISLAND Fairhaven, MA
mlbaron.webs.com/areaindiannames.htmIn this area, three sites represented only by lithic chipping debris (felsite, quartz and chert) have been identified. Unfortunately, due to the lack of any datable ..

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[PDF]
PREFORMAS TIPO CHIVATEROS DEL YACIMIENTO PV35-3 ...
www.ifeanet.org/publicaciones/.../329.pdf - Peru - Translate this page
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
by EL CANALES - 2002
podido comprobar el intento de reducción lítica del tallador, dejando restos de talla de características típicas para cada estadio. Palabras claves: Valle de ...

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A MODEL FOR THE PREHISTORIC DISTRIBUTION OF POOR TO ...
www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/40914292by AE Strauss - 1988 - Cited by 4 - Related articles
chipping debris and projectile points is then mapped in an attempt to understand ... When considering lithic procurement strategies, three basic distribution ..... large amounts of chipping debris at the source areas indicates that lithic reduction ...

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OR

chipped stone debris


lithic remains does not cover it, particularly as there were different types of debris/remains in lithic reduction

[PDF]
High Plains #5 6.5
nebraskahistory.org/archeo/pubs/highplains5.pdfFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
buffalo kills, stone circles, and lithic quarries were inventoried. ... produced stone tools, flaking debris, and char ... site consists of an extensive scatter of chipped stone debris and .... Reduction of stone raw material was the princi pal activity at ..

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Yacimientos paleolíticos en la provincia de Ciudad Real - Wikipedia ...
es.wikipedia.org/.../Yacimientos_paleolíticos_en_l... - Translate this page
Suelo arcilloso de color rojo. En cuanto a la industria lítica encontrada en el yacimiento podemos destacar: restos de talla (núcleos y lascas), cantos tallados
... The toolmakers of Flores (Mark Moore) - Academia.edu
une-au.academia.edu/MarkMoore/Papers/.../The_toolmakers_of_Flor...To consistently remove sharp-edge chips, or “flakes”, from a stone nucleus, or “core”, the stoneworker must first identify a configuration on the perimeter of the ...


Basically it's the pile of chipped pieces of stone/chippings that the carver left behind when making the tool

Can't make it clearer than that:)

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Summer 08.indd
www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/.../washington_crossing...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
by J Wade - Related articles
stone tools that are only partially finished by the toolmaker, to be completed at a later time. ..... scattered amounts of chipping debris. The Indians could then ...
Precise Tap Chip Extractor << Machinist and Toolmaker << Online ...
www.penntoolco.com › ONLINE CATALOG
Machinist and Toolmaker, Precise Tap Chip Extractor. ... as a pointed finger to remove debris from corners and other recesses within a threaded hole. ...
Clovis People Weren't First in Americas, Texas Spear Points ...
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/science/25archeo.html?pagewanted...
24 Mar 2011 – ... new environment in part by making improvements in toolmaking that ... as well as hundreds of flakes and fragments of chipping debris were ...
Note from asker:
Thank you Liz
Peer comment(s):
agree SilviaInt
4 mins
agree Evans (X) : I think 'chipping debris' is the most apt translation. Such scatters of debris are often referred to in archaeology as a 'chipping floor'
13 hrs
Thank you Gilla!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you Liz. I think Gill is right and that your second option "chipping debris" is the best one."
4 mins

stone chips and flakes

la horación de muestra esta en uno de los vinculos
Example sentence:

The by-products of stone tool production, such as stone chips and flakes.

Reference:

http://books.google.com.sv/books?id=AD8OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=%22stone+chips%22+archeology&source=bl&ots=Akr8YKabHi&sig=ETs1o4DqlAe

Note from asker:
Muchas gracias por tu ayuda
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evidernce of cut and scrape marks

Earliest stone tool evidence revealed

In a Nature article this week, a number of authors led by Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute, announce the discovery of indirect evidence of stone tool use dating to 3.4 ma at Dikika, Ethiopia. Dikika is a site across the river from Hadar, the fossiliferous area yielding, since 1973,a quantity of fossils attributed to Australopithecus afarensis, comprising the largest number of individuals attributed to any of our early human ancestors. The latest Dikika finds are two bones, the remains of two animals the size of modern goats and cows, showing cut and scrape marks. These appeared to be deliberate, rather than the effects of natural abrasion, and were so confirmed by analysis under electron microscope.

http://www.becominghuman.org/node/news/earliest-stone-tool-e...


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Sorry for the TYPO: "evidence" (above).
eski :))

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Aug 2010 ... The earliest direct evidence for stone tools is between 2.6 and 2.5 million years ...
consistent with stone-tool cut marks and a scraping motion. ...

www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7308/full/nature09248.h... - SimilarEarliest stone tool evidence revealed | Becoming Human
11 Aug 2010 ... Until now the earliest evidence of stone tools was found at Gona in ... the size of
modern goats and cows, showing cut and scrape marks. ...

www.becominghuman.org/.../earliest-stone-tool-evidence-reve... - Cached - SimilarOldest evidence of stone tool use and meat-eating ... - Science Daily
11 Aug 2010 ... Two fossilized bones with cut marks and percussion marks were unearthed in
Ethiopia. ... Until now, the oldest known evidence of butchering with stone tools ...
Both bones are marred by cut, scrape, and percussion marks. ...

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100811135039.htm - Cached - SimilarEvidence for stone-tool-assisted ... - Somos Bacterias y Virus
12 Aug 2010 ... The oldest direct evidence of stone tool manufacture comes from ... ambiguous
stone-tool cut marks for flesh removal and percussion marks for marrow .... of
flesh, so the scraping marks on the fossil rib suggest stripping off of ...

www.somosbacteriasyvirus.com/dikika.pdf - Cached - SimilarOldest Evidence Of Stone Tool Use And Meat-Eating ... - TerraDaily
16 Aug 2010 ... Both bones are marred by cut, scrape, and percussion marks. ... bones bearing
unambiguous evidence of stone tool use-cut marks inflicted ...

www.terradaily.com/.../Oldest_Evidence_Of_Stone_Tool_Use_An... - Cached - SimilarNeanderthals Wore Colorful Feathers | Early Humans Capable of ...
22 Feb 2011 ... Neanderthals Fashioned Earliest Tool Made From Human Bone ... with evidence
of cut, peeling and scrape marks from stone tools on the wing ...

www.livescience.com/12938-neanderthals-bird-feathers-symbol... - Cached - Similar
Note from asker:
Gracias por tus sugerencias
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1 hr

evidence of chiseling

para piedra chiseling mejor que carving
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28 mins

lithic remains

"In archeology, lithic technology refers to a broad array of techniques and styles to produce usable tools from various types of stone."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithic_technology

"On the other hand, the occupation of gravel hillocks produced an abundance of faunal remains, fragmented and specifically diversified, associated with numerous lithic remains resulting from the production and utilisation of bifaces and flake tools."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3284/is_313_81/ai_n2...

"Over the last 4 years, we have excavated over 100 square meters and recovered over 10,000 lithic artifacts [...] The presence of well-preserved faunal remains along with numerous lithic remains and a wide variety of tools in stratified contexts enables us to document patterns in site use and to test hypotheses about technology, subsistence, and settlement of ancient populations in Interior Alaska."

The term "restos de talla" usually refers to "lascas" (flakes) and "núcleos" (cores), the latter being what's left when you've chipped off the former.

The term "lithic remains" does not always refer to stone tool production, but it usually does, and in this context the rest of the sentence will remove any possible ambiguity.

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"Yacimientos
Arenales de Turra: [...] En cuanto al análisis de los materiales: restos de talla (núcleos y lascas), bolas poliédricas, cantos tallados (llamados habitualmente choppers y chopping-tools, por sus términos en inglés) [...]
Laguna Blanca [...] En cuanto a la industria lítica encontrada en el yacimiento podemos destacar: restos de talla (núcleos y lascas)
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacimientos_paleolíticos_en_la_...

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"Restos de talla" refers, in principle, to whatever is left behind from lithic reduction.

A valid alternative to "lithic remains" is "debitage":

"The term debitage refers to all the waste material produced during lithic reduction and the production of chipped stone tools. This assemblage includes, but is not limited to, different kinds of lithic flakes, shatter, and production errors and rejects."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debitage

"Large concentrations of worked lithic remains, or debitage, were identified in both ravines, particularly in the terraced area on the south side of the east ravine, where literally hundreds of fragments of debitage identified the place as a stone-knapping center."
http://www.akmedanmed.com/article_en.php?artID=276&catID=14

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That's fine, Lynne. I think "debris" is a perfectly valid option!
Note from asker:
Thank you for your suggestions. However, lithic is also used in the text in a different context so.. I also found debitage but, as this is a tourist guide I feel that debris would be easier for them to understand.
Peer comment(s):
agree FVS (X)
1 hr
Many thanks, FVS
neutral liz askew : where does it mention lithic in the source?/I don't believe it is the correct term, lithic remains can include pottery/chipping debris is the accurate term and the accurate translation.
2 hrs
It rarely does refer to pottery and cannot here. // Liz, if you're sure you're right, that's fine, and you're quite entitled to criticise my answer, but I don't think this is the place to to assert that yours is correct.
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1 day 16 hrs

Debitage

Even though it is a French word, this is the term use in archaeological specialized literature.
Just google the term, you'll find lots of references.
Sorry, I'm late!
Reference:

http://archaeology.about.com/od/dterms/g/debitage.htm

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Reference comments

4 hrs
Reference:

Two links

Hope these will come in useful. Won't post an answer as I don't speak Spanish, I just peeked at this question because it's about archaeology!

Previous question in which "tallar" (to knap, as in flint-knapping) came up:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_spanish/archaeology/995...

http://archaeology.about.com/od/dterms/g/debitage.htm
Note from asker:
Your references were most useful, especially the second one. Thank you
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