Bone Tool Production and Use in Southern Coastal California: Examining a Process that Demanded the Use of Large Terrestrial Mammal Tool-Quality Raw Material

Summary

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Fragmented bits of worked bone are relatively common in coastal California habitation refuse—or shell middens. I examine collections of worked bone from various mainland and Channel Island archaeological sites with a focus on understanding the role of functional, as opposed to decorative, bone artifacts from the region. I seek to understand what was necessary to the production and use of bone barbs and other osseous artifacts from the region with an emphasis on chaîne opératoire and the role of functional bone artifacts in California coastal subsistence economies.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39127.0