Ethnographic Review of Hunting Sticks

A literature review was conducted in June 2021 using the search terms ‘hunting stick’ OR ‘throwing stick’, without limitation on subsistence type, using the eHRAF World Cultures database. I excluded examples that only pertained to games or toys, where use was only associated with ritual purposes, or where their use was as part of lore or oral traditions, unless it was noted from other sources that these societies had used such tools for hunting and/or violence. Additional sources from our own library and bibliographies were also included. Suitable excerpts were coded for location, use, prey type, and morphometrics. The dataset accompanies a submitted manuscript on an archaeological throwing stick titled "Making and breaking Pleistocene wooden weapons. A chaîne opératoire analysis of a double-pointed stick from Schöningen, Germany" authored by Annemieke Milks, Jens Lehmann, Michael Sietz, Tim Koddenberg, Utz Böhner, Dirk Leder, and Thomas Terberger.

本研究于2021年6月依托eHRAF世界文化数据库（eHRAF World Cultures）开展文献综述，检索词设定为"狩猎棒（hunting stick）"或"投掷棒（throwing stick）"，未限定生计类型。本研究排除仅用于游戏或玩具、仅与仪式用途相关，或仅作为民间传说与口头传统组成部分的案例，除非有其他来源表明对应社群曾使用此类工具开展狩猎和/或暴力活动。同时纳入自建馆藏与参考文献目录中的额外文献。对符合要求的文献片段进行编码，涵盖其出土地点、使用场景、猎物类型以及形态测量学（morphometrics）参数。本数据集配套一篇已投稿的考古学研究论文，主题为考古学投掷棒，标题为《制作与拆解更新世木质武器：德国舍宁根出土双尖棒的操作链分析》（Making and breaking Pleistocene wooden weapons. A chaîne opératoire analysis of a double-pointed stick from Schöningen, Germany），作者包括Annemieke Milks、Jens Lehmann、Michael Sietz、Tim Koddenberg、Utz Böhner、Dirk Leder及Thomas Terberger。