Minimum Analytical Nodules and Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Lithic Technological Organization at Hell Gap, Wyoming

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (224) ◽  
pp. 325-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Knell
Keyword(s):  
Technological Organization ◽  
Lithic Technological Organization ◽  
Cody Complex ◽  
Late Paleoindian ◽  
Hell Gap

The Late Paleoindian Cody complex component at Lamb Spring, Colorado

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (251) ◽  
pp. 233-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Knell ◽  
Mark S. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Complex Component ◽  
Cody Complex ◽  
Late Paleoindian

Lithic Technological Organization and Hafting in Early Villages

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-727
Author(s):  
Colin P. Quinn ◽  
Nathan Goodale ◽  
William Andrefsky ◽  
Ian Kuijt ◽  
Bill Finlayson
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Food Storage ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Technological Organization ◽  
Lithic Technological Organization ◽  
Economic Decision Making

Hafting is an important part of lithic technology that can increase our understanding of socioeconomic behavior in the past. In this article, we develop a holistic approach to studying hafting by using the concept of curation within a broader assessment of lithic technological organization in early villages. Early villages were loci of socioeconomic transformation as part of the shift from mobile foraging to more sedentary cultivation lifeways. We suggest that an examination of hafting can provide new insights into how early villagers negotiated technological requirements, economic decision making, and social interactions in these novel contexts. As a case study, we develop a curation index and apply it to an archaeological context of hafted and unhafted pointed tools from the early Neolithic village of Dhra’, Jordan. This curation index allows for a discussion of the technological, economic, and social dimensions of hafting strategies at Dhra’. The presence of multiple hafting traditions within early Neolithic villages of Southwest Asia is evidence of persistent social segmentation despite food storage and ritual practices that emphasized communal integration. Through the lens of lithic technological organization, we demonstrate that hafting and curation patterns can increase our understanding of technological, economic, and social strategies in early villages.

scholarly journals New insights into the spatial organization, stratigraphy and human occupations of the Aceramic Neolithic at Ganj Dareh, Iran

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0251318
Author(s):  
Julien Riel-Salvatore ◽  
Andrew Lythe ◽  
Alejandra Uribe Albornoz
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Mortuary Practices ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Depositional History ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Technological Organization ◽  
Lithic Technological Organization ◽  
Level Sequence ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Aceramic Neolithic

The Aceramic Neolithic site of Ganj Dareh (Kermanshah, Iran) is arguably one of the most significant sites for enhancing our understanding of goat domestication and the onset of sedentism. Despite its central importance, it has proven difficult to obtain contextually reliable data from it and integrate the site in regional syntheses because it was never published in full after excavations ceased in 1974. This paper presents the Ganj Dareh archive at Université de Montréal and shows how the documentation and artifacts it comprises still offer a great deal of useful information about the site. In particular, we 1) present the first stratigraphic profile for the site, which reveals a more complex depositional history than Smith’s five-level sequence; 2) reveal the presence of two possible pre-agricultural levels (H-01 and P-01); 3) explore the spatial organization of different levels; 4) explain possible discrepancies in the radiocarbon dates from the site; 5) show some differences in lithic technological organization in levels H-01 and P-01 suggestive of higher degrees of residential mobility than subsequent phases of occupation at the site; and 6) reanalyze the burial data to broaden our understanding of Aceramic Neolithic mortuary practices in the Zagros. These data help refine our understanding of Ganj Dareh’s depositional and occupational history and recenter it as a key site to improve our understanding the Neolithization process in the Middle East.

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