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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"lithic technology"”.
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Ground stone lithic technology of the Indian Peaks, Colorado, USA
Ground stone tools are a long-noted aspect of pre-contact archaeological assemblages from the high elevations (2975-3666 meters asl) of the Colorado Front Range (CFR). The tools are present in small frequencies at around 40% of the sites thus far recorded, and are typically present as heavily …
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An investigation of temporal change in lithic technology at Grassridge Rockshelter, Eastern Cape South Africa
This thesis discusses the lithic technological change in Grassridge Rockshelter, a multi-component site located in the interior region of the Eastern Cape of South Africa that presents a rich high-resolution stratigraphy that interchanges with periods of hiatuses between the Late Pleistocene (LP) …
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Past Human Behavior Across Time and Space: The Organization of Lithic Technology at Spring Lake, TX, 41HY160
… unanswered. For this thesis, I analyzed the lithic assemblage from the 1991 field school. The analysis examined the lithic debitage and tools from three areas around the site 41HY160 to understand how activities changed over time and varied across the site. The results of this thesis were …
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Chipped-stone technology and social diversity in Mesolithic communities: developing a methodology to assess the lithic chaîne opératoire and explore the technical performance of identity
The social diversity of the Mesolithic era is often underestimated or considered difficult to investigate. Research on this subject is typically relegated to scholars focused on later prehistoric periods, where the wealth of material remains and monuments is seen as more conducive to such …
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Settlement, Mobility, and the Organization of Technology at the Clark Lake Site (22SH535): A Small-Scale Woodland Settlement
… Very little research has been conducted on lithic technology, particularly debitage from small sites. The Clark Lake site in the Lower Yazoo Basin is a small-scale settlement with components dating from the Tchula Phase to the Lake George I phase (circa 500 B.C. - 1500 A.D.). This thesis …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… A study of the material culture, most often lithic tools, found at prehistoric bison kills and processing sites allows archaeologists to draw inferences about the technology associated with the procurement of such vital animals. An investigation of bison jump, trap or pound lithic assemblage …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… A study of the material culture, most often lithic tools, found at prehistoric bison kills and processing sites allows archaeologists to draw inferences about the technology associated with the procurement of such vital animals. An investigation of bison jump, trap or pound lithic assemblage …
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Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape, South Africa
… to the marginal environment in terms of lithic technology, raw material use and provisioning behaviour. The 100-km-long study area encompasses west-to-east transitions in vegetation, geology and aridity, allowing a detailed examination of variation in behaviour between these contrasting …
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Chetumal's Dragonglass: Postclassic Obsidian Production and Exchange at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize
… Corozal, Belize. Through the application of the lithic technology approach and the use of pXRF (portable X-ray fluorescence) spectrometry, it is possible to establish the sources of obsidian being exploited, the stage of reduction of obsidian imports, the major obsidian industry, and obsidian …
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Taphonomic and Faunal Parameters From Pleistocene Hominid Site Assemblages in China
… with regard to hominid morphology and lithic technology, the associated faunal assemblages have been assessed only in terms of their paleontological and zoogeographical significance. Analytic techniques assessing taphonomic processes have not been readily applied, particularly in …
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Paleoindian Chronology, Technology, and Lithic Resource Procurement at Nesquehoning Creek
… 2) analyzing the organization of Paleoindian lithic technology, and 3) examining Paleoindian residential mobility patterns in the Middle Atlantic and Northeast regions. The history of research at Nesquehoning Creek, Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene environmental data, and Paleoindian culture …
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PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT VARIABILITY IN THE GRASSHOPPER AREA, EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA
… surface material of 34 archaeological sites (12 lithic sites, 22 ceramic sites) on Pitiful Flats was systematically collected to ensure data comparability. To control further for the effects of functional variability, interpretation-free units of analysis were developed for the lithic and ceramic …
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Prehistoric Colonization of Southcentral Alaska: Human Adaptations in a Post Glacial World
This dissertation presents results from four recently discovered archeological sites in southcentral Alaska. The sites range from the Younger Dryas to middle Holocene in age and provide valuable contextual information for the human process of colonizing a region that was heavily glaciated during …
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Paleoindian Occupations in the Great Basin: A Comparative Study of Lithic Technological Organization, Mobility, and Landscape Use from Jakes Valley, Nevada
… raw material provisioning strategies, lithic conveyance zones, and landscape use to identify mobility and settlement patterns. Lithic assemblages from 19 Paleoindian era occupations, encompassing several environmental zones within Jakes Valley in eastern Nevada, provide data on the …
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Drumming Trees and Stone Percussion: An Evolution of Rhythm
… the correlations between motor skills, lithic industries, synchrony, and cognitive evolution. These studies urge for continued research human behaviour and material culture's coevolution. This thesis' examination of rhythmicity in contemporary chimpanzee buttress tree drumming and human …
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A Techno-Functional Analysis of Early Archaic Lithic Production Debris: Assessing Technological Practice and Settlement in the Middle Savannah River Valley of South Carolina
… tests current understandings of settlement and technology during the Early Archaic in the Middle Savannah River Valley using 17 Early Archaic lithic debitage assemblages. Because understandings Early Archaic settlement are based largely on finished and formal tool types, the use of the debris …
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FROM EAST TO NORTH-WEST AFRICA: MAGNETOCHRONOLOGY OF THE OLDEST AFRICAN ACHEULEAN SITES
… the emergence and developments of the Acheulean lithic technology thought to be a major turning point in human evolution, representing over the last two decades a highly debated issue in the study of early technologies. In East Africa at Melka Kunture, located in the Ethiopian highlands, a …
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Technology, Serial Specialists, and Younger Dryas Cold Adaptation in the Northern Great Basin of North America
… [cal BP]) through analyses of perishable and lithic technological organization, seasonality, and settlement strategies. Researchers have debated to the degree to which Younger Dryas cold stress affected the daily lives of North American peoples, acknowledging regional variation. The Great …
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Lithic Technological and Functional Variability between Mesa and Riverine Environments in the Mid-Columbia River Basin
… of technological and functional traits of lithic stone tools and debitage vary. Features of the three above mentioned Mesa site are discussed and detailed in Smith (1977:68-74) and not included in this study. Results are evaluated based on stone tool expectations derived from Plateau …
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Early human social transmission during Marine Isotope Stage 5: a perspective from the Kalahari Basin
… prosperity of our species. This thesis studies lithic technological systems to assess the extent of the transmission of cultural information between different early human groups across the Kalahari Basin and adjoining regions during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 (~130-74 ka), a key time and place …
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