Toolstone Papers in Honor of the Careers of Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones

This session honors the careers of Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones and the important contributions they have made to lithic studies. The session combines papers by former students, colleagues, and a discussion of their careers to address Beck and Jones’s impact on lithic analysis, particularly the study of lithic procurement, mobility patterns, geochemistry, reduction sequences, and technological organizational and evolutionary approaches to archaeology. While Beck and Jones’s work predominately focused on the Great Basin, their influence has reached beyond this geographic area, due to the transferable nature and broad applicability of their approaches to archaeology. They have had broad methodological and theoretical impacts on the field of archaeology, which session participants will address through discussions of research in a variety of geographic regions, temporal contexts, and to address a wide variety of thematic issues. These papers highlight the important contributions Beck and Jones have made to archaeology throughout their careers.