Recognizing Variability: Experiment-Based Insights into Debitage Analysis

Author(s): Nicholas Hlatky; John Fagan

Year: 2023

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Debitage Analysis: Case Studies, Successes, and Cautionary Tales" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Debitage analysis can be conducted in a wide range of ways, and no standard approach has been broadly accepted. Over the years many attempts have been made to introduce varying classification systems for debitage analysis. This paper uses experimental archaeology to test different classification systems for accuracy, and to examine how field decisions and sampling design can affect the extent of the interpretive potential for recreating the past activities conducted at an archaeological site.

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Recognizing Variability: Experiment-Based Insights into Debitage Analysis. Nicholas Hlatky, John Fagan. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 473629)

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Keywords

General
Experimental Archaeology • Lithic Analysis • Material Culture and Technology

Geographic Keywords
North America

Spatial Coverage

min long: -168.574; min lat: 7.014 ; max long: -54.844; max lat: 74.683 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36593.0