Tools of the Trade: An Analysis of Lithic Biface Variability in South Central Ontario

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation will discuss the results and conclusions of my Masters thesis research, which addresses cultural interaction patterns and corresponding lithic hafted biface manufacturing traditions in the south-central portion of Ontario. It focuses on the analysis of morphometric and raw material variability in lithic hafted bifaces from the Middle Archaic (7000 – 5000 B.P.) through the Late Woodland (1300 – 500 B.P.) temporal periods in Kawartha Lakes and Trent River Drainage region. Informed by Cultural Transmission Theory (Boyd and Richerson 1985; Shennan 2000), I will show how raw material and the degree of morphological variation that is associated with each temporal phase can contribute information towards the extent to which lithic hafted biface variability is linked to interactions with the surrounding areas of New York, Quebec, Northern Ontario, and SW Ontario, and how these social networks may have changed through time.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26206