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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Lithic Analysis"”.
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Lithic analysis of three Lowland Virgin Anasazi sites
Lithic analysis, including an intensive debitage analysis, provides answers to previously posed research questions for the Bovine Bluff (early-Pueblo II), Main Ridge (mid-Pueblo II), and Adam 2 (late-Pueblo II) sites in the Moapa Valley. At Bovine Bluff, an aceramic area appears to be the result of …
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15Md158: Excavations and Lithic Analysis of a Late Archaic/Early Woodland Lithic Workshop Site in Meade County, Kentucky.
… carried out at 15Md158, a prehistoric lithic workshop site in Meade County, Kentucky. Although there has been a wide range of diagnostic projectile points as well as some late radiocarbon dates recovered from the site had been identified as a mostly Late Archaic special purpose site …
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Mass Analysis and Raw Material Sourcing as Metrics of Poverty Point's Socio-Political Organization
… the site’s construction and continued use. Mass analysis and raw material sourcing of the North Three excavation units offer an enhanced examination of the lithic activities of the Poverty Point site. These analyses provide new insight into how the site may have been utilized by those traveling …
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Late Holocene Toolstone Procurement and Land-Use Strategies in the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Country of Northwest Nevada
… prehistoric occupants. This is achieved through: lithic analysis from Paiute Creek Shelter (PCS), a recently excavated rock shelter with stratified cultural remains spanning the Late Holocene; X-ray fluorescence analysis of artifacts from PCS, Hanging Rock Shelter, Silent Snake Springs, and Smokey …
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Mazique (22AD502): Late Woodland Village or Vacant Ceremonial Center?
… density maps, excavations, and ceramic and lithic analysis. Artifact density maps show that the range of activities at Mazique, with both ceramics and lithics, was not restricted to one area. Through excavation, we know that the deposition of these artifacts reflects a long-term, steady …
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Lithic scatters and landscape: the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age inhabitation of the lower Exe valley, Devon
… of the lower Exe valley, between the Mesolithic and the Early Bronze Age through the evidence of a series of surface lithic scatters. Research draws on recent confident approaches to surface lithic scatters which view them as key data for understanding the inhabitation of prehistoric …
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Hominin cognitive and behavioural complexity in the Pleistocene: assessment through identity, intentionality and visual display
… individual and group identity through the Palaeolithic linked to a scale of cognitive complexity shared by the Social Brain Hypothesis. Embedded within the Identity Model are the notions that material culture / behaviour could be imbued with culturally significant social meaning once the ability …
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Subsistence, Technology, and Site Use Through Time at 41HY160, the Tee Box Six Locale
… approximately 500 stone tools, 35,000 pieces of lithic debitage and an abundance of faunal remains. Prior to this Thesis, no analysis of this material had been attempted and the only published material on this site is a short article in La Tierra and a report synthesis was needed for these early …
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The Organization of Technology in the Pine Hills of Mississippi
… for this project focused on the statistical analysis of debitage created during the experimental replication of stone tools using local chert cobbles. Special attention was given to attributes of flake debris in relation to the tool production continuum. The results of this analysis indicate …
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Geological reconnaissance and provenancing of potential Neolithic lithic sources in the Maltese Islands
… identify the petrological characteristics of Neolithic chert artefacts associated with the Temple Period (c. 4000-2500 cal BC) and their probable sources from the local Maltese chert formation as well as the main possible chert sources in Sicily. Were the chert and flint materials used by …
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Organization of Technology at the Sanders Site (45KT315): Analysis of Formed Tools from the Yakima Uplands, WA
Analysis of the stone tools from the Sanders Site reveals trends in the development of stone tool technology and settlement patterns within the Yakima Uplands west of the Middle Columbia River. The Sanders Site collection provides exceptional opportunity for the study of stratified components that …
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Upland Land Use and Intersite Lithic Assemblage Variation Across Two Rockshelter and Three Open-Air Archaeological Sites in Mount Rainier National Park
… with relatively dense and materially diverse lithic artifacts are thought to be longer-term residential base camps. Technological and functional paradigmatic lithic classifications are used to measure how rockshelter and larger open-air sites vary. The analysis is reduced further to focus on …
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Variability in the Debitage of the Early Holocene Lithic Assemblages of the Sanders (45KT315) Site
… be used to address variability between the Lower Lithic Component (LLC) and the Middle Lithic Component (MLC). The results of the analysis were compared to expectations established by previous research. Directional changes in reduction stages, material type, presence of use wear, and the …