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Evaluation of Early Human Activities and Remains in the California Desert (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Emma L. Davis. K. H. Brown. Jacqueline Nichols.

The desert quarter of California lies open for change and/or destruction. This report presents the area's demonstrated wealth of prehistoric information that still is little known, uncorrelated, controversial and fragile. To justify the large sums already expended on archeological surveys of CDCA, it is now essential to create a public document that goes much further. Our research outlines a story of desert prehistory --the searches of Rogers, the Campbells, Simpson, Begole, Childers,...


Occupation Sequence at Avery Island (1967)
DOCUMENT Citation Only S. M. Gagliano.

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Revisiting Bipolar Technology‘s African Distribution and Diversity (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Pargeter. Adela Cebeiro. Saul Shukman.

This is an abstract from the "Expedient Technological Behavior: Global Perspectives and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bipolar reduction is a central strategy in Pleistocene archaeology, recognized as an archetypal “expedient” technology. It entails hammer and anvil flake production, suitable for stabilizing smaller cores during miniaturized flake production. Despite its widespread occurrence and decades of study, debates...