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Reusable Drill Bits As A Chronological Marker At Nevada Mining Sites (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hard-rock mines in the 19th- and early 20th- century employed full-time on-site blacksmiths who sharpened massive numbers of drill bits each day. The archaeological and architectural traces of on-site blacksmiths at Nevada mine sites are relatively easy to identify during field surveys, although they may be overlooked when...