SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Projectiles Under a New Angle: a Ballistic Analysis Provides an Important Building Block to Grasp Paleolithic Weapon Technology
J. COPPE, C. LEPERS and V. ROTS
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 2022Why did hunting weapon design change at Abri Pataud? Lithic use-wear data on armature use and hafting around 24,000–22,000 BP
N. TAIPALE, L. CHIOTTI and V. ROTS
PLOS One. 2022A closer look at an eroded dune landscape: first functional insights into the Federmessergruppen site of Lommel-Maatheide
S. TOMASSO, D. CNUTS, J. COPPE, M. VAN GILS, F. GEERTS, M. DE BIE, V. ROTS
Peer Community Journal 1: article no. e66. 2021A leaf point documents hunting with spears in the Middle Paleolithic at Hohle Fels, Germany
V. ROTS, J. COPPE, N. J. CONARD
Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, Tübingen. 2021Every hunter needs a knife: hafted butchering knives from Maisières-Canal and their effect on lithic assemblage characteristics
N. TAIPALE & V. ROTS
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36: 102874. 2021Looking into Upper Paleolithic gear: the potential of an integrated techno-economic approach
A. TOMASSO & V. ROTS
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 61: 101240. 2021The important role of bow choice and arrow fletching in projectile experimentation. A ballistic approach
C. LEPERS & V. ROTS
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 34: 102613. 2020A 300.000 old throwing stick from the Palaeolithic site of Schöningen, northern Germany documents the evolution of human hunting
N.J. CONARD, J. SERANGELI, G. BIGGA & V. ROTS
Nature Ecology and Evolution 4: 690–693. 2020Freezing in-sight: The effect of frost cycles on use-wear and residues on flint tools
M. MICHEL, D. CNUTS & V. ROTS.
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 2019Ballistic study tackles the question of impact energy for Palaeolithic weaponry
J. COPPE, C. LEPERS, V. CLARENNE, E. DELAUNOIS, M. PIRLOT & V. ROTS
Archaeometry. 2019Integrating SEM-EDS in a sequential residue analysis protocol: benefits and challenges
E. HAYES, D. CNUTS & V. ROTS
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 23: 116-126. 2019Documenting scarce and fragmented residues on stone tools: an experimental approach using optical microscopy and SEM-EDS
E. HAYES & V. ROTS
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 2018Breakage, scarring, scratches, and explosions: understanding impact trace formation on quartz
N. TAIPALE & V. ROTS
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 27pp. 2018Gravettian weaponry: 23,500-year-old evidence of a composite barbed point from Les Prés de Laure (France)
A. TOMASSO, V. ROTS et al.
Journal of Archaeological Science. May 2018On the role of fire in the life of an adhesive
D. CNUTS, S. TOMASSO & V. ROTS
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. December 2017Extracting residues from lithics: towards an experiment-based protocol
D. CNUTS & V. ROTS
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Springer, 20pp (2017)Focus on the target. The importance of a transparent fracture terminology for understanding projectile points and projecting modes
J. COPPE & V. ROTS
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 12: 109-123 (2017)Learning from blind tests: determining the function of experimental grinding stones through use-wear and residue analysis
E. HAYES, D. CNUTS, C. LEPERS & V. ROTS
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11: 245-260 (2017)Pressure to serrate points for the hunt: Serrated points used as hafted projectiles at Sibudu Cave, South Africa
V. ROTS, C. LENTFER, V.C. SCHMID, G. PORRAZ & N.J. CONARD
PLoS ONE 12(4): e0175151, 61pp (2017)What is the use of shaping a tang? Tool use and hafting of tanged tools in the Aterian of Northern Africa
S. TOMASSO & V. ROTS
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Springer, 29pp (2017)
DOI 10.1007/s12520-016-0448-3Making sense of residues on flaked stone artefacts: learning from blind tests
V. ROTS, E. HAYES, D. CNUTS, C. LEPERS & R. FULLAGAR
PLOS One (2016)Residue and microwear analyses of the stone tools from Schöningen
V. ROTS, B. HARDY, J. SERANGELI & N. CONARD
Journal of Human Evolution. Special Issue 89: 298-308 (2015)Projectiles and the abuse of the use-wear method in a search for impact
V. ROTS & H. PLISSON
Journal of Archaeological Science 48: 154-165 (2014)Insights into early Middle Palaeolithic tool use and hafting in Western Europe. The functional analysis of Level IIa of the early Middle Palaeolithic site of Biache-Saint-Vaast (France)
V. ROTS
Journal of Archaeological Science 40, 1: 497-506 (2013)Prehension and Hafting traces on Flint Tools. A Methodology
V. ROTS
2010, 298 pages, 204 illustrations
ISBN 9789058678010
Published by Leuven University Press