Lithic Raw Materials - Texas Beyond History
Lithic Raw Materials Stone was an important resource for the prehistoric occupants of the Bosque River valley. Not only did the inhabitants require knappable material, such as chert, for their tools and weapons, they also used stone for their hearths and …
Lithic Raw Materials - Archeology Matters
Lithic Raw Materials Analysis Jared Pebworth is conducting an experimental study of local and non local raw material variability within the Arkansas River valley and its tributaries. The results will provide a framework for the analysis of stone tools recovered from excavations at …
Lithic raw materials (Chapter 3) - Lithics
This chapter introduces and describes some rudimentary techniques to help determine lithic raw-material types. However, the variation in lithic raw-material types is enormous and only a fraction of that variation is directly associated with chipped stone tools.
Category: Lithic Raw Materials - Andy White Anthropology
Although lithic raw material data suggest that Kirk groups were highly mobile (e.g., see this paper) the area of the "horizon" is much too large for it to be the product of a single group of people: the hunter-gatherers discarding Kirk points in Ontario are not the same individuals as those discarding Kirk points in …
Lithic Raw Material - University of Lethbridge
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Lithic Raw Materials in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, South ...
Analysis of 976 lithic artifacts from twelve museum and private collections in the Lower Rio Grande Valley revealed a preference for seven rock types. Sixty nine percent of all tools were made from gravel chert, which is locally the most abundant rock type on the Frio and Goliad Formations, as well as on the gravels of the Rio Grande.
Lithic raw material units based on magnetic properties: A ...
Classification of lithic artifacts’ raw materials based on macroscopic attributes (e.g., color, luster, texture) has been used to pull apart knapping episodes in palimpsest assemblages by attempting to identify artifacts produced through the reduction of an individual nodule.
Lithic technology - Wikipedia
Useful raw materials all have common characteristics which make them ideal for stone tool production. To make a stone material ideal for tool production, it must be non-crystalline or glassy, which allows for conchoidal fracturing. These characteristics allow the person forming the stone (the flintknapper) to control the reduction precisely in order to make a wide variety of tools. There are numerous factors as to why some raw materials would be chosen over others and can result …
Geology for Archaeologists | NC DNCR Office of State ...
Prehistoric Native Americans extensively utilized the Carolina Slate Belt as a source of lithic raw material. Several studies have been conducted in North Carolina related to raw material acquisition and extraction.
LITHIC RAW MATERIALS AND CHIPPED STONE TOOLS: THE ...
A variety of lithic materials, the raw resources of which stone crafts and tools were made, were locally available in the Black Warrior Valley. However, raw materials of a higher physical quality, as well as an apparently higher cultural value, were of a non-local origin and were therefore limited in their circulation.
Lithic Raw Material Assemblage Resources at the OSA | The ...
Priority efforts continue to expand the lithic raw materials from the six immediately surrounding states, which compose 60 percent of the total Out-State assemblage. Although many lithic types have both unaltered and heat treated samples, no systematic effort has yet been made to provide both. Figure 4. Bedrock Geologic Map of Iowa, 1998
Lithic Raw Material Assemblage at the OSA | The Office of ...
We have created an electronic version of our in-house lithic raw material assemblage, which is the primary resource for lithic identification and analysis of chipped stone tools and debitage. This assemblage is based on macroscopic identification elements including geological references, physical samples, mapped source locations, and a Visual Basic Script (VBS) lithics program, all combined to …
Midwest Lithic Repository: Collections: Glenn A. Black ...
The Lithic Raw Material Repository at GBL has been created to facilitate a better understanding of regional raw materials. The repository documents and curates over 500 samples of lithic materials from throughout North America that were utilized by peoples in the Midwest.
Pecos NHP: Cultural Resources Inventory Survey (Chapter 9)
lithic raw materials. However, the park is located at the juncture of three major physiographic provinces, and each of these provinces contains sources of lithic raw materials that were exploited by the prehistoric inhabitants of Pecos (Figure 9.1). Pecos lies in the extreme
Resources for Archaeological Lithic Analysts [Internet ...
From these lithic materials, a great deal of information can be culled. The sources of raw materials tell us about procurement and exchange patterns. The nature of the materials and their finished products tell us about technology, skill, and shared learning. Some of the artifacts can also be dated, providing us with more precise chronologies.
Traditional Knowledge and Lithic Resources
In the Shetland islands off the north coast of Scotland there was major exploitation of a lithic source known as riebeckite felsite during the Neolithic period. This source provided the raw material for the majority of stone axes known from the archipelago and also for objects known as Shetland knives.
The Iceman’s lithic toolkit: Raw material, technology ...
Jun 20, 2018 · 2.1 Lithic raw material analysis. The purpose of the study was to describe the chert lithotypes that represent the toolkit with the aim of identifying the geological formations exploited and to delimit possible geographic sources of provenance.
Sourcing Novaculite - Archeology Matters
Dec 02, 2019 · Wyckoff, Don G. (2005) Recent Lithic Technological Studies on the Southern Plains and Adjacent Regions, Part I: Identifying and Sourcing Raw Materials. Lithic Technology 30(2):89-105. Suggested citation format for this website: