A Diachronic Analysis of Flaking Technology at the Multicomponent Site of Spring Lake

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Toolstone and Mineral Geography Across Time and Space" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Spring Lake Site (41HY160) is a significant multicomponent archaeological site in Central Texas. Located at one of the State’s largest freshwater springs, the site contains material from Paleoindian to Protohistoric times. A combination of aggregate and typological analyses was used to examine over 18,000 pieces of debitage from the 2014 Spring Lake Data Recovery assemblage. Various debitage characteristics were recorded such as flake morphology, platform, bulb of percussion, raw material and cortex to investigate load application, specialized billet technology, lithic procurement activities, production stages, and degrees of biface production versus core reduction. Specific combinations of attributes were used to assign and quantify flake types. The frequencies of each flake type were evaluated temporally. This paper will present the methods and results of these analyses and will discuss patterns identified through time.

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• Toolstone and Mineral Geography Across Time and Space   •
• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

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Abstract Id(s): 52504