Early Pre-contact use of organic materials within the North Superior Region: Indirect evidence through use-wear analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 257-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasha Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Organic Materials ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
The North ◽  
Wear Analysis ◽  
Use Wear

A Middle Archaic Burial from East Central Kansas

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Hoard ◽  
William E. Banks ◽  
Rolfe D. Mandel ◽  
Michael Finnegan ◽  
Jennifer E. Epperson
Keyword(s):  
Soil Horizon ◽  
Central Plains ◽  
Projectile Point ◽  
East Central ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Radiocarbon Age ◽  
The North ◽  
Wear Analysis ◽  
Use Wear ◽  
Middle Archaic

In late 2001, investigators excavated a solitary Middle Archaic burial from the Plains-Prairie border in east-central Kansas. The burial was contained in a dissected colluvial apron at the foot of the valley wall, in a soil horizon that began accumulating around 9000 B.P. Burial goods include deer bone, a drill, and a side-notched projectile point/knife, the morphology of which is consistent with side-notched Middle Archaic points of the North American Central Plains and Midwest. Use-wear analysis shows that the stone tools were used before being placed with the burial and were not manufactured specifically as burial goods. A radiocarbon assay of the deer bone in direct association with the burial yielded a radiocarbon age of 6160 ± 35 B.P. This is one of only a few burials older than 5,000 years in the region. Comparison of this burial to other coeval regional burials shows similarities in burial practices.

scholarly journals How do you like your cereal? A qualitative and quantitative use-wear analysis on archaeological grinding tools from prehistoric Greek sites

Wear ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 203636
Author(s):  
Danai Chondrou ◽  
Maria Bofill ◽  
Haris Procopiou ◽  
Roberto Vargiolu ◽  
Hassan Zahouani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Wear Analysis ◽  
Use Wear

Inferring human activities from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene in Topogaro 2, Central Sulawesi through use-wear analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 102905
Author(s):  
Riczar Fuentes ◽  
Rintaro Ono ◽  
Nasrullah Aziz ◽  
Sriwigati ◽  
Nico Alamsyah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Wear Analysis ◽  
Use Wear ◽  
Late Pleistocene To Holocene ◽  
Central Sulawesi

From Texts and Iconography to Use-Wear Analysis of Ceramic Vessels

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-210
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Lis ◽  
Trevor Van Damme
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Wear Analysis ◽  
Use Wear ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Repeated Use ◽  
Funerary Rites

While handwashing is attested in the Bronze Age cultures of the eastern Mediterranean and appears in both Linear B records and Homeric epics, the custom has not been discussed with regard to the material culture of Mycenaean Greece. On analogy with Egyptian handwashing equipment, we explore the possibility that a conical bowl made of bronze and copied in clay was introduced in Greece early in the Late Bronze Age for this specific use. We integrate epigraphic, iconographic and formal analyses to support this claim, but in order to interrogate the quotidian function of ceramic lekanes, we present the results of use-wear analysis performed on 130 examples. As use-wear develops from repeated use over a long time, it is a good indicator of normative behaviour, particularly when large datasets are amassed and contrasted with other shapes. While not conclusive, our results allow us to rule out a function as tableware for food consumption, and in combination with all other analyses support the interpretation of lekanes as handwashing basins. We then trace the development of this custom from its initial adoption by elite groups to its spread among new social classes and venues after the collapse of the palace system: at home, as part of communal feasting and sacrifice or as an element of funerary rites. The widespread distribution of handwashing equipment after 1200 bc closely mirrors the situation in our earliest surviving Greek Iron Age texts and joins a growing body of evidence pointing to strong continuity in social practices between the Postpalatial period and the early Iron Age in Greece.

scholarly journals Use of summer habitat by caribou on the north slope of a mountain near the Macmillan Pass, N.W.T.

Rangifer ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 311 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Quayle ◽  
G. Peter Kershaw
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Type ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
North Slope ◽  
Habitat Types ◽  
The North ◽  
Feeding Cycle ◽  
Alpine Habitats ◽  
Pellet Density ◽  
Insect Harassment

Habitat use by woodland caribou was investigated by counting pellet-groups, sampling phytomass, and evaluating topography in nine habitat-types on the north slope of an unnamed mountain near Macmillan Pass, N.W.T. Caribou pellets were most abundant in high elevation habitat-types, and pellet density was greatest in an alpine Lichen-Grass habitat-type with a slope of <1°. The high density of pellets in alpine areas may have resulted from of the use of cool, windy, alpine habitats by caribou seeking relief from insect harassment. There were no apparent relationships between pellet abundance, and phytomass of mosses, lichens, or graminoids, possibly as a result of caribou feeding and defecating in different habitats. The occurrence of pellets with a coalesced morphology in the barren Lichen-Grass habitat-type provided indirect evidence in support of a feeding cycle, whereby caribou visit lush habitats to feed, and return to open, alpine habitats to rest and ruminate.

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