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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"stone tools"”.
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Stone tools and sand veld settlement
… of site examined included rock art locations, stone artefact scatters, deposit-containing shelters and shell middens. Considerable variation was found to exist in assemblage composition and site density within an area stretching between the coast and the fringes of the Cape Fold Belt mountains. …
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Renbaan cave : stone tools, settlement and subsistence
… the site in the context of contemporary Later Stone Age studies in the southwestern Cape. It is designed to complement the research of professor John Parkington. It is argued that settlement and subsistance patterns at Renbaan Cave reflect similar patterns to those noted at other small …
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Geochemical and mineralogical analysis of pre-Columbian stone tools from La Piedra Pintada, Baja California Sur, Mexico
… materials suitable for the production of flaked stone tools. To help better define the spatial scale of resource procurement by the canyon's prehistoric population elemental analysis of samples collected from the dikes and selected stone tools was done by ICPMS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass …
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Coarse Stone Tools from the Ness of Brodgar: Investigating the Function and Significance of Orcadian Neolithic Multi-Hollowed Cobbles
Coarse Stone Tools are among the most understudied artefacts in the Scottish Prehistoric<br/>context. While they are one of the most ubiquitous artefacts recovered at many archaeological<br/>sites, they were often seen as crude implements without much archaeological merit. This belief<br/>was only …
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Stone tools employed in prehistoric metal mining. A functional study of cobblestone tools from prehistoric metalliferous mines in England and Wales in relation to mining strategies by use-wear analysis and cobble morphometry
This is a study of cobblestone tools from metalliferous mine sites in England and Wales dated to the Bronze Age which were most probably used to extract copper ore. The site assemblages studied are from the Great Orme, Copa Hill in Cwmystwyth, Nantyreira, Parys Mountain and Alderley Edge. The …
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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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Airport Rings: Stone Circle Archaeology In Yellowstone National Park
… Rings Site in the Montana portion of Yellowstone National Park. During the 2007-2008 Montana Yellowstone Archaeology Project (MYAP) Field school, University of Montana Students excavated three stone circles or tipi rings. The crew uncovered three hearths and collected several hundred lithic …
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Airport Rings: Stone Circle Archaeology In Yellowstone National Park
… Rings Site in the Montana portion of Yellowstone National Park. During the 2007-2008 Montana Yellowstone Archaeology Project (MYAP) Field school, University of Montana Students excavated three stone circles or tipi rings. The crew uncovered three hearths and collected several hundred lithic …
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WESSELMAN FARM, AN ARCHAIC SITE ON THE LOWER GREAT MIAMI RIVER, HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
… This research was inspired by a small box of stone tools that a family had collected since the 1940s as they plowed the fields on their 15.38-hectare (38.00 acre) historic farmstead. The landowner’s collection, archival research, geophysical survey, archaeological excavations, and radiocarbon …
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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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Absolute and relative chronology of a complex alpine game drive site (5BL148), Rollins Pass, Colorado
… span is provided with an analysis of chipped stone tools and jewelry. Lichenometry is used to determine the age of lichen colonization events on stone walls, and radiocarbon dates on faunal remains and charcoal are used as absolute chronological measures. A spatial analysis of the artifact and …
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Raw Material Usage and Stone Tool Manufacture in the Elwha River Valley
… primarily composed of fine-grained volcanic stone. Regional models of this raw material usage and site location within a glacially-carved riverine environment place these sites within the Old Cordilleran/Olcott cultural tradition that has been widely observed in the Salish Sea. This study is …
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Technology, Serial Specialists, and Younger Dryas Cold Adaptation in the Northern Great Basin of North America
… and most research has been primarily limited to stone tools. I leverage well-preserved rockshelter records containing perishable tools, subsistence residues, and preserved site structure alongside the regional surface lithic record to explore cold adaptation in the NGB at multiple scales. My …
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The Organization of Technology in the Pine Hills of Mississippi
… experimental flintknapping to better understand stone tool production and the organization of technology among Woodland period hunter-gatherers within the Pine Hills region of Mississippi. The Pine Hills region is characterized archaeologically by the presence of numerous sites consisting of …
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Broken Bones and Cutmarks: Taphonomic Analyses and Implications for the Peopling of North America
… been achieved. Older sites completely void of stone tools and reportedly containing the remains of butchered proboscideans are considered inadequate evidence for a pre-Clovis occupation by some researchers. Before utilizing modified faunal remains as proxies for a human presence in the …
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A Microdebitage Analysis of the Winterville Mounds Site (22WS500)
… of the re-sharpening and re-shaping of complete stone tools that were brought onto and eventually left the site. Radiocarbon dates along with artifactual evidence provides for an occupation of Mound C well into the Lake George phase, previously characterized as a time of occupational decline and …
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Faunal Analysis of the Tongue River Bison Kill Site (24RB2135) in Southeastern Montana
… hunt. Over 20,000 bone fragments and over 1,000 stone tools were recovered during the excavation. This study focuses on the bone material in order to understand past hunting practices at this site. In order to complete the analyses required to understand the faunal material, specific data was …
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Faunal Analysis of the Tongue River Bison Kill Site (24RB2135) in Southeastern Montana
… hunt. Over 20,000 bone fragments and over 1,000 stone tools were recovered during the excavation. This study focuses on the bone material in order to understand past hunting practices at this site. In order to complete the analyses required to understand the faunal material, specific data was …
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