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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"lithics"”.
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A social life for later lithics : a technological and contextual analysis of later Bronze and Earliest Iron Age flintworking in East Anglia, England
This thesis investigates the social significance of flintworking and its products for later Bronze (c.1600-800 BC) and Earliest Iron Age (c.800-600 BC) communities in East Anglia, England. It is argued that current understandings of intra- and inter-site variability in British later Bronze and Iron …
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A Spatial Analysis of 24HL1085: A Prehistoric Site in the Bear's Paw Mountains
… of spatial patterns created by the excavated lithics, faunal remains, and fire cracked rock (FCR). I also wanted to show that understanding the spatial layout of FCR is just as important as understanding the spatial layout of lithics and faunal remains. In order to complete this analysis the …
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A Spatial Analysis of 24HL1085: A Prehistoric Site in the Bear's Paw Mountains
… of spatial patterns created by the excavated lithics, faunal remains, and fire cracked rock (FCR). I also wanted to show that understanding the spatial layout of FCR is just as important as understanding the spatial layout of lithics and faunal remains. In order to complete this analysis the …
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Rediscovering an Upland Site: The Manastash Pines (45KT346) Kittitas County, Washington
… units (1 x 1 m) and three trenches, collecting lithics, fauna, charcoal, and sediment samples. The recovered artifacts were set aside to be analyzed at a later time. Starting in 2012, as part of a larger CWU project revisiting prior university excavations, I catalogued over 18,000 artifacts, …
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The sword in the stone : lithic raw material in the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, southern Cape, South Africa
… enabling a more detailed analysis of the lithics than is possible for Klasies. Although the PP5-6 lithic sequence conforms with the overall trends of MSA artifact manufacture, a number of differences from other sites are identified here for the first time - a significant step towards …
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Experiments to Measure the Effects of Timber Harvesting Equipment on Surface Lithic Scatters
… involved placement of 225 glass tiles (proxy lithics) in each of three plots subject to vehicle traffic and log dragging by steel-tracked and rubber-wheeled equipment. After the harvest, there was almost no tile breakage (0.15%), and scratch damage was slight (2/3 of tiles had
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The Mesolithic hunters of the Trentino: a case study in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence
… contain long term data-sets of animal bones and lithics. These provide a diachronic perspective to subsistence change. The open air sites offer a contrasting spatial perspective of Mesolithic settlement sites. Lithic material and site location, inrelation to the surrounding topography, provides a …
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Postglacial Sandy Hill: A Regional Manifestation of the Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition
… at Sandy Hill by analyzing site morphology, lithics, and hard tissue macrobotanical remains from several radiocarbon dated contexts. Macrobotanical artifacts recovered from Sandy Hill indicate a preference for hazelnut as well as wetland roots and tubers. The lithic assemblage is related to …
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Past Human Behavior Across Time and Space: The Organization of Lithic Technology at Spring Lake, TX, 41HY160
… Unit 25, there were few cultural materials and lithics, but those present indicate scraper reduction. However, the low number of lithics indicate this area was the border of the site. The comparison between previous work by Haefner (2011) and Reid (2019) demonstrates the complexity of this site. …
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Aspects of the Flandrian vegetational history of south-west Scotland, with special reference to possible Mesolithic impact
… basins and blanket peat near to the sites of lithics and in the context of subsequent vegetational history (from c. 5000 b. p.). Attention focused on upland sites by Loch Doon and Loch Dee. Upland areas by Clatteringshaws Loch and a site at Palnure near the coast provided a late and relatively …
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Provenance and depositional environments of the upper Permian-lowermost Triassic fluvial and lacustrine sandstones, Wutonggou low-order cycle, Bogda Mountains, NW China
… the relative abundances of quartz, feldspar, and lithics and conglomerate compositions and paleocurrent directions are documented. These data indicate that rocks of the eastern North Tianshan Suture (ENTS) and rift shoulders were the provenance lithology. Moreover, the upsection changes of …
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Mazique (22AD502): Late Woodland Village or Vacant Ceremonial Center?
… 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 process, not the episodic artifact grouping of a vacant ceremonial center. The ceramic evidence, through the …
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Textile production in Britain during the first millennium B.C.
… prehistoric technologies studied from ceramics, lithics and metalwork to include one based on organic matelials. In focusing on the sequence of processes for converting raw material to end product, in this case fibre into woven cloth,this work provides a new perspective for the study of …
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Intense Shallow Magma Sediment Mingling within Dikes at Guffey Butte Maar, Idaho
… to individual crystals. GB basalts contain less lithics than mixed samples. The intensity of mingling is diverse and the style of mingling over a spatial area is not systematic. Magma penetrated through wet unconsolidated siliciclastic sediment and due to their differing densities mixing occurs …
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Near-vent processes of the 273 ka Poris eruption (Tenerife)
… then generated an erosive PDC rich in fine lithics; initial waxing was followed by pulsatory current waning, recorded in repeated sets of inversely graded tuff. Hybrid deposition ensued, as coarse pumice fallout and ballistic material entered PDCs to become deposited as a stratified …
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The terminal pleistocene of Klipfonteinrand rock shelter in the Cederberg
… variation in the abundance and composition of lithics, ostrich eggshell, marine shell, charcoal, ochre, bone and roof spall from the site; and, secondly, to situate these changes in the context of changes in palaeoenvironments and patterns in the use of nearby and more distant archaeological …
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Archaeology and Settlement Histories Along the Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… local materials like pottery, stone beads, and lithics from the sites are analyzed and compared. Although limited, this study provides the first local ceramic chronology of this locality. Archaeological evidence of a lithic component that underlies the Atlantic era at Wawase suggests a long-term …
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Archaeology And Settlement Histories Along The Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… local materials like pottery, stone beads, and lithics from the sites are analyzed and compared. Although limited, this study provides the first local ceramic chronology of this locality. Archaeological evidence of a lithic component that underlies the Atlantic era at Wawase suggests a long-term …
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The Quartz Conundrum : understanding the role of quartz in the composition of late Pleistocene and Holocene lithic assemblages from the Verlorenvlei area, Western Cape
… virtually impossible to differentiate from the lithics alone, are undoubtedly also implicated. Technological change related to the use of quartz and bipolar flaking is explored through three critical periods, the late Holocene, the terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene, and the late Pleistocene. …
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Lithofacies, provenance, and diagenesis of jura-cretaceous strata of the Northern Bowser Basin, British Columbia
… and is chert rich like P2, with less volcanic lithics and a small but significant portion of metamorphic lithic fragments (Qt =64 %, F=5%, L=31 %; Qm=7%,F=5%, Lt= 88 %). Paleocurrent directions indicate transport from northeast to southwest. Microprobe analysis of detrital chromian spinel …
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