Publications and communications of Noora Taipale

Touzé, O., Coppe, J., Taipale, N., & Rots, V. (2024). A morphometric and functional dataset on the lithic points from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Maisières-Canal (Province of Hainaut, Belgium). doi:10.58119/ULG/LAFHVF

Coppe, J., Taipale, N., & Rots, V. (25 October 2023). Terminal ballistic analysis of impact fractures reveals the use of spearthrower 31 ky ago at Maisières-Canal, Belgium. Scientific Reports, 13 (1), 18305. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-45554-w

Barham, L., Duller, G. A. T., Candy, I., Scott, C., Cartwright, C. R., Peterson, J. R., Kabukcu, C., Chapot, M. S., Melia, F., Rots, V., George, N., Taipale, N., Gethin, P., & Nkombwe, P. (2023). Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago. Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06557-9

Taipale, N., Lepers, C., & Rots, V. (2023). Blind-testing the quartz microwear method. In J. Apel & L. Sundström (Eds.), Stones. Current Stone Age research in northern Europe. Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University.

Taipale, N. (05 April 2022). Can stone tool hafting reflect Upper Palaeolithic social dynamics? New data from Abri Pataud, Hohle Fels, and Maisières-Canal [Paper presentation]. AWRANA 2022: Tracing social dynamics, Barcelona, Spain.

Pesonen, P., Hertell, E., Mannermaa, K., Manninen, M. A., Rostedt, T., Simponen-Robins, L., Taipale, N., & Tallavaara, M. (2022). Research on the Mesolithic of North Karelia in 2003–2017: Implications for the early postglacial archaeology of Northern Europe. In P. Halinen, V. Heyd, ... K. Mannermaa, Odes to Mika: Festschrift for Professor Mika Lavento on the occasion of his 60th birthday (pp. 45-55). Finland: Archaeological Society of Finland.

Taipale, N., Chiotti, L., & Rots, V. (2022). Why did hunting weapon design change at Abri Pataud? Lithic use-wear data on armature use and hafting around 24,000–22,000 BP. PLoS ONE, 17 (1), 0262185. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0262185

Coppe, J., Taipale, N., & Rots, V. (07 October 2021). Fracture mechanics and the identification of projectiles: what is the influence of raw material? [Paper presentation]. Rock and Roll: 13th International Symposium on Knappable Materials, Tarragona (held on-line), Spain.

Coppe, J., Taipale, N., & Rots, V. (26 August 2021). The importance of understanding the influence of raw material on fracture mechanics when searching for projectiles [Paper presentation]. SAfA 2021 - Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) 25th Biennial Meeting, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Taller, A., & Taipale, N. (2021). A Swiss Army Knife from the Upper Paleolithic? Experiments on Non-Projectile Uses of Backed Pieces. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, 29, 105-131.

Taipale, N., & Rots, V. (2020). Revisiting Maisières-Canal (Hainaut, BE): New results on tool use and hafting. Notae Praehistoricae, 40, 105-127.

Taipale, N., Chiotti, L., Conard, N., & Rots, V. (September 2019). Diverse means to an end: domestic tool hafting in the European Upper Palaeolithic [Paper presentation]. 9th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Liège, Belgium.

Taipale, N., Coppe, J., Touzé, O., & Rots, V. (23 September 2017). The weapon system behind the point: Early Gravettian hunting technologies at Maisières-Canal [Paper presentation]. 7th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Leiden, Netherlands.

Taipale, N., & Rots, V. (30 March 2017). Emmanchement des outils du Paléolithique supérieur [Paper presentation]. ASLIRA (Association Scientifique Liégeoise pour la Recherche Archéologique), Liège, Belgium.

Taipale, N., Conard, N. J., & Rots, V. (14 September 2016). Domestic tools, hafting, and the evolution of technology: The Upper Palaeolithic of Hohle Fels as a case study [Poster presentation]. 6th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

Simponen, L., Pesonen, P., Hertell, E., Mannermaa, K., Manninen, M. A., Taipale, N., & Tallavaara, M. (14 September 2015). The earliest pioneer settlement in Eastern Finland: the Sarvinki-project and the Jokivarsi 1 site [Poster presentation]. MESO 2015: The 9th International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe, Belgrade, Serbia.

Tomasso, S., & Taipale, N. (03 June 2015). Reflections on tangs and other morphological adaptations that may be hafting-related [Paper presentation]. Workshop on Residues and Hafting, Liège, Belgium.

Taipale, N., & Rots, V. (28 May 2015). Stone tool hafting and use in the European Upper Palaeolithic: the first results of the analysis of Gravettian tools from Hohle Fels [Paper presentation]. AWRANA 2015: Connecting people and technologies, Leiden, Netherlands.

Taipale, N., & Rots, V. (07 April 2015). Stone tool hafting and use in the European Upper Palaeolithic: first results from Hohle Fels [Poster presentation]. 57th Annual Meeting of Hugo Obermaier Society, Heidenheim, Germany.

Taipale, N. (06 December 2014). Variability in stone tool hafting and use in the Upper Palaeolithic of Western and Central Europe [Poster presentation]. Journée de contact FNRS “Préhistoire – Prehistorie” 2014, Liège, Belgium.

Pesonen, P., Hertell, E., Simponen, L., Mannermaa, K., Manninen, M. A., Rostedt, T., Taipale, N., & Tallavaara, M. (2014). Postglacial pioneer settlement in the Lake Sarvinki area, eastern Finland. In F. Riede & M. Tallavaara (Eds.), Lateglacial and postglacial pioneers in Northern Europe (pp. 176-192). Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress.

Taipale, N., Knutsson, K., & Knutsson, H. (2014). Unmodified quartz flake fragments as cognitive tool categories : testing the wear preservation, previous low magnification use-wear results and criteria for tool blank selection in two Late Mesolithic quartz assemblages from Finland. In J. Marreiros, N. Bicho, ... J. Gibaja Bao (Eds.), International Conference on Use-Wear Analysis : Use-Wear 2012 (pp. 352-361). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Rots, V., Cnuts, D., Coppe, J., Taipale, N., & Tomasso, S. (07 December 2013). Functional studies at Liège [Poster presentation]. Journée de contact FNRS “Préhistoire – Prehistorie” 2013, Eupen, Belgium.

Taipale, N. (2013). Pellon Kaaraneskosken ja Lohjan Hossanmäen kvartsien mikrokäyttöjälkianalyysi: kokemuksia menetelmän soveltamisesta suomalaisiin mesoliittisiin aineistoihin. In J. Enqvist, J. Ruohonen, ... M. Suhonen, Arkeologipäivät 2012. Helsinki, Finland: The Archaeological Society of Finland.

Pesonen, P., Hertell, E., Mannermaa, K., Manninen, M., Rostedt, T., Taipale, N., & Tallavaara, M. (14 September 2011). Postglacial pioneer settlement in the Sarvinki area, Eastern Finland: environmental and economical setting [Poster presentation]. The 17th EAA Annual Meeting, Oslo, Norway.

Simponen, L., Mannermaa, K., Taipale, N., & Pesonen, P. (14 September 2011). Postglacial pioneer settlement in the Sarvinki area, Eastern Finland: a red ochre grave in Rahakangas 1 site [Poster presentation]. The 17th EAA Annual Meeting, Oslo, Norway.