SESSION 4 - Use-wear analyses - signs of usage on stone tools (a.k.a. traceology)
What is a nice flake like you doing in a place like this? Use-wear and refit analysis join to study the quartzites of Middle Pleistocene Td10.1 level of Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

This study is presented as a complementary interaction between refit study and a use-wear analysis applied to a quartzite sample coming from the Middle Pleistocene TD10.1 level of the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain), dated to around 300.000 BP. The results obtained show a concentration towards the North and East sections of both the artefacts and the units of raw material, even though some of these units are relatively closer to the central area. Use-wear analysis allowed us to determine the function based on refit and contributed to the explanation of artefact movements within the settlement, where some structuring elements have been identified.