Microwear Analysis of a Sample of 100 Chipped Stone Artifacts from the 1971–1977 Excavations at the Seip Earthworks

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Yerkes
Keyword(s):  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Microwear Analysis

scholarly journals Immunological and Microwear Analysis of Chipped-Stone Artifacts from Piedmont Contexts

1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Petraglia ◽  
Dennis Knepper ◽  
Petar Glumac ◽  
Margaret Newman ◽  
Carole Sussman
Keyword(s):  
Potential Utility ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Immunological Analysis ◽  
Microwear Analysis ◽  
Virginia Piedmont ◽  
Positive Results

Immunological and microwear analysis was performed on 100 chipped-stone artifacts from four prehistoric sites located in the Virginia Piedmont. A total of 20 artifacts returned positive results for immunological analysis and 16 artifacts returned microwear results. The findings indicate the negative effects of postdepositional processes and the potential utility of the techniques for deciphering prehistoric activities, otherwise unavailable by conventional studies in piedmont contexts. The study further illustrates the value and problems associated with immunological and microwear analyses on chipped-stone assemblages.

Chipped Stone Artifacts

2008 ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Kaczanowska ◽  
Janusz K. Kozłowski
Keyword(s):  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone

Norton Hunters and Fisherfolk

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Dumond
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Coastal Resources ◽  
Bering Strait ◽  
The South ◽  
Alaska Peninsula ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Alaska

By the late centuries B.C., occupations assigned to Norton people are reported from a southern point on the Alaska Peninsula, then north and eastward along coastal areas to a point east of the present border with Canada. The relatively uniform material culture suggests origin from the north and west (pottery from Asia, chipped-stone artifacts from predecessors in northern Alaska), as well as from the south and east (lip ornaments or labrets, and pecked-stone lamps burning sea-mammal oil). In early centuries A.D., Norton people north and east of Bering Strait yielded to Asian-influenced peoples more strongly focused on coastal resources, while those south of the Strait collected in sites along salmon-rich streams where they developed with increasing sedentarism until about A.D. 1000, when final Thule-related expansion along coasts from the north displaced or incorporated Norton remnants.

The Columbia-Fraser Region and the Northwest Coast

1950 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Marian W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Marine Economy ◽  
Wood Sculpture ◽  
Stone Carving

The archaeology of the Columbia-Fraser region in the southern Northwest Coast is more complicated than early generalizations woilld have led one to suspect. Although there has been a constant adaptation to a river and marine economy, variations within that economy are marked and may be tentatively identified by the presence of bone and stone carving, and by the proportion.of stone to bone tools. Using these criteria, four cultural phases may be recognized: (1) Late Bone, which ties with historically known Indian groups and occurs throughout the region. It has wood sculpture but no carving in bone or stone; there are a few ground stone artifacts but chipped stone is rare. (2) Early Bone, which has the greatest antiquity and is apparently the richest culture of the region, having elaborate carving in bone and stone, beaten copper, a large variety of bone artifacts, and a number of stone pieces both ground and chipped.

Some Notes on Rock Shelter Sites near Huancayo, Peru

1946 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Tschopik
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Observatory ◽  
Carnegie Institution ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Writing

The purpose of the present paper is to call attention to certain rock shelter sites in the vicinity of Huancayo, Peru, which—since they have yielded thus far several types of chipped stone artifacts and bone implements, but no pottery—appear at the present writing to be unique in Peru. The two sites described in the following pages are situated on old terraces of the Chupaca River, a tributary of the Mantaro, in Junín Department in the central Peruvian highlands. They were brought to the writer's notice by Mr. Paul G. Ledig, Observer-in- Charge of the Carnegie Institution Magnetic Observatory near Huancayo, who has in the past made small excavations at both sites.

4 Chipped Stone Tools

1969 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Roberta S. Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Stone Tools ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Elementary Technology

The chipped stone artifacts comprise a full tool kit. Ranging in size from the largest of the choppers to the tiniest of the flake scrapers, they conform to a characterization of generalized implements shaped with a minimum of modification. The broad and shallow flaking, unifacial percussion technique, use of flawed lithic material, re-working of artifacts from one kind to another, and the great number of tools retaining cortex and bulb of percussion are typical of the basic simplicity of all classes. Something of a paradox exists between the wide variety of shapes and sizes of the tools, which do tend to fall into groups, and the elementary technology of their manufacture. The major classifications include projectile points and blades, flake knives, drills, gravers, choppers, hammerstones, scrapers, picks, crescents, cores, and flakes.

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