Lithic Analysis (Other Keyword)

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What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Contribution of Upland Archaeology in Connecticut's Trap-Rock Ridges to Late Archaic Cultural Prehistory (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cosimo Sgarlata.

My dissertation research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York which I completed in 2009 involved survey of West Rock Ridge, one of many Triassic "trap-rock" ridges in Connecticut's Central Valley. These are very rugged Triassic landforms made entirely of basalt or diabase that rise like long linear spines above Connecticut's otherwise level and fertile Central Valley. The question of the research was whether data from this new and untested setting could contribute new...


What’s in a Hammerstone? Insights on Core Technology at a Neolithic Quarry in Southern Germany (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn Fisher. Susan Harris. Corina Knipper. Rainer Schreg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone shaping tools and hammerstones are among the most ancient and ubiquitous of stone implements in the archaeological record, but they are not commonly studied in detail in archaeological context. This poster presents results of a comparative study of chert objects that show percussion scars at a Neolithic chert quarry in southern Germany. Variation in the...


What’s the Point? Contextualizing the Significance of the Turpin Lithic Assemblage (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace Conrad. Robert Cook.

This is an abstract from the "Improving and Decolonizing Precontact Legacy Collections with Fieldwork: Making Sense of Harvard’s Turpin Site Expedition (Ohio)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A long-standing point of contention has been the degree of continuity and change between the Middle Woodland (ending AD 500) and Fort Ancient periods (beginning about AD 1000). The intermediate Late Woodland period has become a placeholder but is clearly of...


When Technological Analysis Becomes a Setback: The Case of the Points in the Interior of São Paulo State, Brazil (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Letícia Correa. Astolfo Araujo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historically, the shift from the study of form to the study of techniques was guided by the transition from the Cultural History approach to the New Archeology. This theoretical readjustment was incorporated into Brazilian archeology decades later, strongly impacting the way that the collections was studied. Today the reality is that, although lithic...


When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Angela McArdle.

This paper examines an obsidian cache offering excavated near the corner of a Postclassic Maya platform structure in Nojpeten, on the island of Flores, Guatemala. The cache consists of approximately 190 obsidian prismatic blade cores and core fragments, but the original number of cores placed in the cache likely fell between 173 and 182, with a best estimate of 177, 178, or 180. The cores were found about 20 cm southwest of the structure in a circular concentration measuring approximately 35 cm...


When Window Mesh is Worth It: Assessing the Potential of Microrefuse in Spatial Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Sites (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brooke Morgan.

The smallest pieces of chipped stone flaking debris are often overlooked in the analysis of hunter-gatherer camps. Several factors account for this, including recovery methods, research focus, and time and cost allotted for a project. At shallowly-buried sites where features have been obliterated, concentrations of microrefuse have the potential to reveal in situ activity areas or secondary deposits formed by batch dumping. This paper presents a case study of the Mountaineer Folsom site near...


Where Do We Go from Here? A Review of Prehistoric Forager Mobility in Liguria (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Julien Riel-Salvatore. Fabio Negrino. Claudine Gravel-Miguel.

This is an abstract from the "Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of Liguria: Recent Research and Insights" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Due to a suite of topographical and geomorphological factors, Liguria, and the Liguro-Provencal arc more generally, is an interesting natural laboratory in which to revisit some of the debates about forager mobility and its analysis that have unfolded over the past several decades. This paper presents an overview of...


White Owl Site (32DU621): a Late Prehstoric-Protohistoric Campsite and Knife River Flint Procurement Locality On the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Dunn County, North Dakota (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only B. L. Olson.

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The Whitesburg Bridge Site, Mav10 (1948)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William S. Webb. David L. DeJarnette.

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Who Hunted the Most Bison? (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Blakeslee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The bison jumps and bison pounds of the Northern Plains are prominent features of the landscape, but conditions are different on the Central and Southern Plains. Early historic documents tell of large long-distance communal hunts conducted from horticultural villages. Thousands of hunters used surrounds to take the animals, but no kill sites of that kind...


Whole Assemblage Behavioral Indicators: Expectations and Inferences from Surface and Excavated Records at Elandsfontein, South Africa (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Braun. Matthew Douglass. Benjamin Davies. Jonathan Reeves.

Large scale surface surveys represent singular insights into the landscape scale variation in behaviors. Detailed investigations of the spatial distribution of artifacts across large spatial extents allow archaeologists to investigate a landscape as a single site. Surface assemblages have the advantage of large sample sizes and large aerial extents. However, biases associated with the formation processes of surface assemblages often undermine our confidence in the behavioral inferences derived...


Why So Blue? Color Symbolism in Ancestral Pueblo Lithics (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Weinmeister.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While both lithics and color have a long history in archaeological research, archaeologists rarely address the importance of color in lithic artifacts. The ethnography of the American Southwest indicates that both color and lithics can play a critical role in indigenous ritual and ceremony. To explore the relationship between lithic artifacts and color...


The Williamson site, Dinwiddie County, Virginia (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rodney M. Peck.

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Wind River Canyon Burial and Cache (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George C. Frison. Zola Van Norman.

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Windy Ridge: a Prehistoric Site in the Inter-Riverine Piedmont in South Carolina (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John H. House. Ronald W. Wogaman.

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Woodall Farm, 23Du269: a Late Woodland-Early Mississippian Site (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles H. Hostetler. Barbara A. Hostetler.

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Woodland Period Occupations of the Napoleon Hollow Site in the Lower Illinois Valley (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael D. Wiant. Charles R. III McGimsey.

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Woods Mound Group: a Prehistoric Mound Complex in McCurtain County, Oklahoma (1967)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Don G. Wyckoff.

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The woodside component of the Slone Site, Pike County, Kentucky (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert C. Dunnell. Lee H. Hanson. Donald L. Hardesty. Bettye J. Broyles.

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Worked Bone Catalog (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Statistical Research, Inc.

Worked bone inventory showing individual attributes of each analyzed artifact.


Year One of New Excavations at the Paleo Crossing (33ME274) Clovis Site, Ohio: The 2017 Field Season (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Metin Eren. Brian Andrews. Michelle Bebber. Ashley Rutkoski. David Meltzer.

The Paleo Crossing (33ME274) Clovis site in Northeast Ohio was discovered in 1989, and excavated in the early 1990s. Analysis of the collections over the past 27 years has shed light on Clovis technology, mobility, raw material transport, and forager colonization behavior. Now, armed with several new questions involving the site's chronology, Clovis tool function, and the possible presence of a Clovis "structure", we re-opened excavations at the site during June 2017. While more excavations...


You’ve Got Tools: Evaluating Comparability Among 3D Lithic Angle Measurement Tools (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Anne Melton. Emily Liu. Jeff Calder. Katrina Yezzi-Woodley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is widely accepted that angle measurements taken on lithic artifacts form a crucial part of lithic analysis. Thanks to advances in 3D-scanning technology, researchers now have virtual angle-measuring options. However, since these new virtual tools were created independently and thus are utilizing their own “suite” of algorithms dependent on the...


Yuzanu 50, An Early Paleoindian Site in the Mixteca Alta (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Lohse. Aleksander Borejsza. Arthur Joyce.

Yuzanu 50 was discovered during a reconnaissance of the headwaters of the Yuzanu River as a scatter of debitage eroding from a barranca cutbank, from a palaeosol formed under wet meadows that lined the stream from the Terminal Pleistocene into the Holocene. Excavations exposed 15m2 of an occupation surface buried 13.5m below modern ground surface. An excavated assemblage consisting almost exclusively of biface reduction debris made of materials that crop out further upstream indicates that this...


Zephyr: a Site for Sore Eyes: Excavations at 5Mn1068 (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeff Indeck. Allen J. Kihm.

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The Zimmerman Site: a Report on Excavations at the Grand Village of Kaskaskia, La Salle County, Illinois (1961)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Brown.

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