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Use-wear analysis has become an essential method for the functional study of lithic artifacts from archaeological assemblages. However, research concerning multi-stage use-wear formation is poorly developed. In this paper, we report the results of an experimental study focusing on flake scar patterns, rounding and polish formation in multiple stages. For comparative data and interpretation, nine cases of single working tasks were undertaken on scraping bone with Onondaga chert from Ontario Lake....
A New Maritime Archaeological Landscape Formation Model (2013)
Underwater archaeology tends to be particularistic focusing on the human activities associated with an event, however; human behavior and its resultant material remains exist on a physical and cultural landscape and cannot be separated from it. Studying known archaeological sites within the landscape reveals patterns of human behavior that can only be identified within that context. The natural environment constrains and informs human behavior and plays an important role in the development of...
Tar, Glue and Iron – A Close Study of the Role of the Stockholm Shipyards in Swedish State Formation - 1625-26 (2018)
- The 18th [January], purchased Matz Erich[sson] and [Bengt] Joen[sson], 166 baskets of straw in Broschön for – 6 [Daler], 15 [Öre], and 12 [Penningar] - …On the fourteenth on the same month, [unspecified] purchased glue - 12 [Öre] - …On the seventh of January 1626, Master Johann took with him to Småland - 1000 [Daler] Entries such as these make up the bulk of the Stockholm Naval account books for the years 1625 and 26. Naval-yard’s administrative systems. This was a...
Using the Archaeological Record to Better Understand Models: An Australian Case Study (2017)
In Australia’s desert regions, different conceptual models are sometimes used to explain patterning in late Holocene surface deposits. Among these patterns are distributions of radiocarbon determinations, which have been concurrently explained as generated by intermittent occupation by hypermobile foragers, or growing semi-resident populations of broad-spectrum hunter-gatherers. This paper shows how models connected to the language and logic of record formation can help resolve competing...