Heat-Alteration (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Celia. Heather Rockwell. Nathaniel Kitchel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Red chert from the Munsungun Lake formation in northern Maine is found in late Pleistocene Fluted-Point period archaeological sites across northeastern North America. Despite its prevalence, there is no literature detailing the effects of heat alteration on red Munsungun chert. Here we report the effects of experimental heat alteration on red Munsungun...