Leveraging Longitudinal Data for Lithic Technological Organization Research

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Old Technology, New Methodology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Lithic technological organization research depends on multiscalar perspectives connecting macroscales of land use and raw material economics to microscales of individual sites. Surface sites comprise a major source of data in many lithic technological organization studies. These sites are often recorded one time and rarely monitored. This can lead to biases in the data for technological organization. Biases are caused by both human factors such as the experience of survey crew members, to natural factors caused by sedimentary dynamics. For these reasons, longitudinal data from actively monitored management contexts can minimize the role of bias in the interpretation of lithic data at landscape scales. This presentation focuses on data from the playa landscapes of the Orchard Combat Training Center in Boise, ID, which has been actively monitored since 1987. This work provides a method for leveraging longitudinal management data to enhance research on lithic technological organization in dryland landscapes of the American West.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Old Technology, New Methodology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36634.0