Lithic Resource Procurement at Obsidian Cliffs, Oregon
Author | : Barry South |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Barry South |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Susan C. Vehik |
Publisher | : Center for Archaeological Investigations |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : 9780881040227 |
Author | : Jonathon E. Ericson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1984-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521256223 |
This book was originally published in 1984. For over a million years rocks provided human beings with the essential raw materials for the production of tools. Nevertheless we still know very little about the behaviour and processes that resulted in the creation of archaeological sites at or near lithic quarries. In the past archaeologists have placed much emphasis on the process of 'exchange' in their analysis of prehistoric economies while largely ignoring the sources of the exchanged objects. However, with the development of interest in the means of production, these sites have begun to take on a new significance. Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production is the first systematic study of archaeological sites that served as quarries for stone tools. Its theoretical and methodological importance will extend its appeal beyond those archaeologists concerned with lithic technology and prehistoric exchange systems to archaeologists and anthropologists in general and to geographers and geologists.
Author | : Leslie B. Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard E. Hughes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520096998 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : |
"Education, arts and social sciences, natural and technical sciences in the United States and Canada".
Author | : Brian Anthony Ramos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Hydration rind dating |
ISBN | : |
Prehistoric obsidian quarries in the western Great Basin show peak levels of use ca. 3150-1350 B.P. immediately followed by sharp declines in overall volume and a shift away from biface production. The models developed to explain this pattern either view quarry use as part of a trans-Sierra Nevada luxury exchange network with central and southern California populations as primary consumers, or as utilitarian toolstone procurement responding to western Great Basin settlement patterns and mobility. Obsidian hydration dates obtained on artifacts systematically collected from the Truman/Queen source demonstrates a history of use similar to other sources, suggesting that regional changes in western Great Basin obsidian quarry use was not the result of trans-Sierra Nevada exchange because Truman/Queen obsidian is virtually absent west of the Sierra Nevada. The results of this study also indicate that models that emphasize mobility as the primary conditioner of lithic technology are also inadequate. First order determinants of technology are most likely subsistence related and based on the ability of a specific tool form to contribute to subsistence return rates by reducing resource handling time. Differential mobility likely contributes to technology in a lesser way, affecting decisions regarding degrees of processing, such as biface stage, primary and secondary reduction loci, but not ultimately tool form.
Author | : Joanne M. Juchniewicz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Hayes site (Tenn.) |
ISBN | : |