우리나라 후기구석기시대 슴베석기의 기능과 도구복원 연구

A tanged tool was a representative one to the upper paleolithic period in Northeast Asia, especially in Korea. The tool had been generally using during blade tool culture and micro-blade tool culture. The stemmed part is closely related with a built-in behavior to utilize a medium for the completion of the tool. This stone tool could largely be divided into a hunting implement and a living implement by whether it has the symmetry related to the function of tool or not. According to the result of ethnographic data and experimental archeology researches, a tanged tool could be transformed variously by the rejuvenation process when its blade was damaged during a hunting. Judging from the symmetry and the transforming process, Korean tanged tool could be revitalized to a hunting tool to be connected with the shaft of an arrow and a living tool to install the damaged tool in a handle part. In case of the revitalization to a hunting tool, it could have more possibility to be used to an arrowhead, an atlatl utilized by atlatl thrower, or a short-distance atlatl than to be just used to a spear.