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Lithic debitage : context, form, meaning

Title: Lithic debitage : context, form, meaning / edited by William Andrefsky, Jr.
Publication: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2001.

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Andrefsky, William, Jr., 1955-

Description

xi, 266 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Debitage, the by-product flakes and chips from stone tool production, is the most abundant artifact type in prehistoric archaeological sites. For much of the period in which archaeology has employed scientific methodology, debitage has been discarded or ignored as debris. Now archaeologists have begun to recognize its potential to provide information about the kinds of tools produced and the characteristics of the technology being employed. Debitage can even provide clues regarding human organizational systems such as settlement mobility and site functions. This volume brings together some of the most recent research on debitage analysis and interpretation. It presents stone tool production experiments and offers detailed archaeological investigations for interpreting variability at the individual and collective levels. Although there are a number of volumes that focus on general analysis of lithic artifacts, this is the first volume to address debitage and should be of use to a wide range of archaeological researchers. Contributors Andrew Bradbury, Cultural Resource Analysts, Lexington, KY Philip Carr, Mississippi State University, Jackson Jay K. Johnson, University of Mississippi, Oxford Eric J. Kaldahl, University of Arizona, Tucson Martin Magne, Parks Canada, Calgary Albert Pecora, Ohio State University, Columbus William Prentiss, University of Montana, Missoula Jeffrey Rasic, Washington State University, Pullman Kimberly Redman, Alpine Archaeology Consultants, Montrose, CO Philip Shelley, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales April Sievert, Indiana University, Bloomington Alan Sullivan, University of Cincinnati Steve Tomka, University of Texas, San Antonio Kristen Wenzel, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales John Whittaker, Grinnell College, IA Karen Wise, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History " -- publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-254) and index.

Contents

Emerging directions in debitage analysis / William Andrefsky, Jr. -- Some reflections on debitage analysis / Jay K. Johnson -- Debitage analysis as a scientific tool for archaeological knowledge / Martin P.R. Magne -- Where the waste went: a knappers' dump at Grasshopper Pueblo / John C. Whittaker and Eric J. Kaldahl -- Alaskan blade cores as specialized components of mobile toolkits: assessing design parameters and toolkit organization through debitage analysis / Jeffrey Rasic and William Andrefsky, Jr. -- A generalized technology for a specialized economy: archaic period chipped stone at Kilometer 4, Peru / April K. Sievert and Karen Wise -- What put the small in the arctic small tool tradition: raw material constraints on lithic technology at the Mosquito Lake site, Alaska / Kristen E. Wenzel and Phillip H. Shelley -- Flake debris analysis, levels of production, and the organization of technology / Philip J. Carr and Andrew P. Bradbury -- Reliability and validity of a "distinctive assemblage" typology: integrating flake size and completeness / William C. Prentiss -- Holmes's principle and beyond: the case for renewing Americanist debitage analysis / Alan P. Sullivan III -- The effect of processing requirements on reduction strategies and tool form: a new perspective / Steve A. Tomka.

ISBN

0874806798
9780874806793
0874807689
9780874807684

LCCN

00012561

OCLC

ocm45418883
45418883
SCSB-1219984

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Princeton University Library