Pages: 231-248 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp231231248

The paper provides a historiographic review of the problem of using the theory and methods of generative linguistics to study the mechanisms of form making in stone working technologies associated with flaking of various isotropic rocks. The authors come to the conclusion that both the theory itself and its methods are insufficient for adequate analysis and description of these form making mechanisms.

Keywords: historiography, form making, stone knapping, flaking system, сontext-free grammar, CFG-structures, recursive insertion

Information about authors:

Eduard Kaziev (Vladikavkaz, Russian Federation). Institute of History and Archaeology of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. Vatutin St., 46, Vladikavkaz, 362025, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-4386-248X
Alexander Otcherednoy (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-7616-5686