Lithic Analysis (Other Keyword)

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Unfinished Fluted Points and Fluted Point Manufacture In the Tennessee Valley (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fletcher III Jolly.

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The University of Alabama Excavations at 1Tu50, a Moundville I Phase Center in the Black Warrior Valley (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincas P. Steponaitis.

Unmodified Cobbles and Boulders from the Middle Stone Age Occupation of Witberg 1, Southern Kalahari, South Africa (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Schoville.

This is an abstract from the "A Tribute to the Contributions of Lawrence C. Todd to World Prehistory" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Witberg 1 is an open-air Middle Stone Age (MSA) occupation within diatom-rich sediments in the southern Kalahari, suggestive of a small ancient lake system (~360,000–140,000 years-ago). The occupation horizon is dense with flakes, blades, cores, and MSA points, mostly less than 10 cm. However, there are numerous...

"Unpacking" Ancient Behaviors: Variability of Forager Land-Use during the Moroccan Middle Stone Age (2025)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ismael Sánchez-Morales.

This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Steve Kuhn’s contributions to the study of hunter-gatherer lithic technologies are far-reaching and include innovative analytical methods and theoretical approaches to understanding early human economic behaviors. Steve’s methods and theories have greatly influenced the interpretations of data from diverse regions and time periods. The...

Unused Hammerstones (1953)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Douglas Leechman.

Unusual Artifact Type From Howell County (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Del Thompson.

Unusual Fluted, Contracting-Stem Point From Kansas City (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jim D. Feagins.

An Unusual Grooved Laminar Ax (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John H. Gustafson.

Unveiling Shape and Size Diversity: A Geometric Morphometric Perspective on Holocene Formal Lithic Artifacts in São Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil (2025)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renata Araujo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geometric Morphometric Methods (GMM) stand as a robust analytical approach originating from evolutionary biology, designed to quantify and assess variations in the shapes of biological specimens. Over the past fifteen years, archaeologists have increasingly employed GMM to scrutinize the shape diversity of archaeological artefacts. Particularly prevalent...

An Update on the Sonvian-Hoabinhian Controversy: Shape Analysis of Flakes and Cores from Mau A, Northern Vietnam (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben Marwick. Pham Thahn Son.

This is an abstract from the "Geometric Morphometrics in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding stone artefact variation in northern Vietnam can be challenging because of the underspecified cultural taxonomies that have dominated analytical frameworks. For example the Hoabinhian is often thought to be a descendant taxa to the Sonvian. Our recent excavations at Mau A challenge this sequence. We apply statistical shape analysis...

Upper Mississippian Stone Tools and Community Organization (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Sterner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research investigates community organization as an approach to understanding the shift from typologically complex to a simpler lithic technology after circa A.D. 500 in the Prairie Peninsula. I compare the lithic practice of Upper Mississippian groups settled in western Wisconsin (A.D. 1400-1700) at the La Crosse locality to that of groups in eastern...

Upper Paleolithic Movement and Trade as Represented at the Abri Kontija 002 Rockshelter Site (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rory Becker. Ivor Jankovic. Darko Komšo. Siniša Radovic. James Ahern.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on the Paleolithic in the Mediterranean Region" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Abri Kontija 002 rockshelter and cave located in the Istria Peninsula of Croatia provides a wealth of archaeological material dating to the Upper Paleolithic. Excavations beginning in 2014 produced several thousand artifacts, some of which can be traced to distant sources. This paper presents recently identified evidence...

The Use and Function of Late Middle Archaic Projectile Points in the Midsouth (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott C. Meeks.

The Use and Function of Narrative Ceramics in West Mexican Visual Traditions during the Late Formative-Early Classic Periods (2025)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Wilson Norwood.

This is an abstract from the "From the Underworld to the Heavens: Expanding the Study of Central Jalisco’s Past" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Evidence of visual communication in West Mexico during the Late Formative and Early Classic Periods (c. 300 BCE to 500 CE) is predominantly found in smaller solid figurines, larger semi-hollow or hollow figures, and multi-figure tableaus. My research shows that this ceramic tradition depicts a limited...

Use-Wear Analysis of Flaked Stone Tools (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick C. Vaughan.

Use-Wear Analysis of Paleoindian Unifaces From the Initial Late-Glacial Occupation At the Indian Creek Site (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie B. Davis. Sally T. Greiser.

Use-wear analysis of the stone tools at the Wansan site, a Neolithic site in Taiwan (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chihhua Chiang.

This is a multi-stage project intending to extrapolate the possible usages of various stone tools excavated from the Neolithic Wansan site in Northern Taiwan. In this poster, I want to demonstrate the preliminary results of the first stage that tries to identify possible patterns of tool use-wear. There are abundant finely ground lithic tools uncovered from the Wansan site. Previous research categorized these tools based on their morphology, and classified these tools as projectile points,...

Use-Wear and Residue Analyses of Flint Projectile Points from Sihó, Yucatán, Mexico (2025)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ignacio Lerma.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sihó, is a Maya city in the northwest of the Yucatán Peninsula, which had its apogee during Late and Terminal Classic Periods (ca. 600-900 A.D). Research developed in the last twenty years suggests that the settlement was the center of a royal dynasty and was inhabited by a complex and multistratified society. The horizontal excavations of eight...

Uses and Limitations of the "Sangoan" for Understanding Hominin Mobility and Dispersals: An Example from Northeastern Zambia (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Bisson.

The Sangoan, a late Middle Pleistocene technological tradition widely distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa, follows the Acheulean and is considered by some to represent the earliest manifestation of the Middle Stone Age. It may coincide with the evolution of Homo sapiens and the initial appearance of evidence for complex cognition. Unfortunately, this archaeological construct has fallen in and out of favor and remains poorly defined. It has uncertain dates and environmental associations, and...

The UseWear Analysis of the Blue Lake Museum Lithic Collection (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Cox.

This paper examines the usewear related modifications on an assemblage of North American lithic artifacts that is held by the Blue lake Museum. The collection consists of a variety of material and tool types. There are a number of flaked projectile points and scrapers, as well as groundstone tools. All pieces were acquired by the Blue Lake museum through donation by private individuals and not all of the pieces have a known context. There has not been any intensive analysis carried out on this...

Using Agent-Based Modeling to Study Constraints on the Social Learning of Lithic Technology (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gilbert Tostevin. Luke Premo. William Wimsatt.

Social learning is universally believed to be critical to the hominin adaptation. Yet when this becomes evident in our oldest cultural proxy, lithic artifacts, is hotly debated. Much of the variation in how archaeologists study this question is caused by differing assumptions related to the constraints on the performance, and thus the learning, of the flintknapping process. This paper explores the consequences of the physical constraints within lithic technology on its cultural transmission,...

Using Analytical Nodules to Assess the Integrity of Paleoindian Surface Lithic Scatters in Eastern Nevada (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Khori Newlander.

Minimum analytical nodule analysis is a useful tool for recognizing the variability present within a lithic assemblage. In turn, this type of analysis permits a more complete understanding of lithic technological organization. Typically, lithic analysts use macroscopic and microscopic characteristics, as well as spatial associations, to partition lithic assemblages into subgroups, or analytical nodules, that we assume reflect a limited set of production episodes or the role of a particular type...

Using Debitage Analysis, MANA, and Landscape Utilization to Illuminate the Archaic-Early Woodland Transition in Western New York (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Snyder. Kathryn Whalen. Douglas Perrelli.

Recent CRM fieldwork in western New York by SUNY Buffalo Archaeological Survey has afforded the opportunity to address questions of how people, technology, and the environment related from newly discovered sites which span thousands of years. One of the most fruitful avenues of research is in the examination of the transition from the Late and Transitional Archaic to the Early Woodland, a period in which it is suggested there was dramatic linked cultural and environmental change, where multiple...

Using Raman Spectroscopy to Identify the Type of Process Used to Heat Treat Silcrete Lithics (2025)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chloe Hoelzel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Silcrete used to make stone tools in South Africa ~70ka shows signs of being heat treated. There are debates over the type of heat treatment used, and unfortunately, there are minimal approaches to identifying different heating methods. Three methods have been proposed for this ancient heat treatment: (1) direct (2) ember and (3) sand-bath heat treatment....

Utilitarian Lithics as Commodities: Comparing Classic Period Specialized and Multi-craft Producers in the Maya Lowlands (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Horowitz. Damien Marken. Damaris Menéndez.

This is an abstract from the "An Exchange of Ideas: Recent Research on Maya Commodities" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Economic studies in the Maya region have illustrated that the Classic period Maya utilized a variety of exchange networks to circulate commodities such as market exchange, redistribution, and gifting. The study of specific types of goods provides information on how different materials circulated through these exchange mechanisms...

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