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Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies

edited by

Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall

U NIVERSITY P RESS OF C OLORADO

Louisville

2019 by University Press of Colorado

Published by University Press of Colorado

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Louisville, Colorado 80027

All rights reserved

The University Press of Colorado is a proud member of the Association of University Presses.

The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Regis University, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, Utah State University, and Western State Colorado University.

ISBN: 978-1-60732-890-2 (cloth)

ISBN: 978-1-60732-892-6 (ebook)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5876/9781607328926

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Horowitz, Rachel A., editor. | McCall, Grant S., editor.

Title: Lithic technologies in sedentary societies / edited by Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall.

Description: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019000678| ISBN 9781607328902 (cloth) | ISBN 9781607328926 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Stone implementsAnalysis. | Tools, PrehistoricAnalysis. | Prehistoric peoplesAntiquities. | Economics, Prehistoric. | Excavations (Archaeology)

Classification: LCC CC79.5.S76 L57754 2018 | DDC 930.1/2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019000678

Cover photographs by Francesca Manclossi.

Contents

Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall

Mary A. Davis

Francesca Manclossi and Steven A Rosen

Jason S.R. Paling

Rachel A. Horowitz

Grant S. McCall, Rachel A. Horowitz, and Dan M. Healan

Fumiyasu Arakawa

Jayur Madhusudan Mehta, Grant S. McCall, Theodore Marks, and James Enloe

John C. Whittaker

Map of Indus region with location of sites and raw materials mentioned in the text

Rohri Hills landscape

Artifact scatters likely dating to the Paleolithic and Harappan periods

Harappan period quarry sites

Production areas in Rohri Hills region

Sample of lithics including artifacts associated with primary and secondary production at Harappa

Example of precore from Harappan Museum Collection

Raw material by time period at Harappa

Example of complete blade from Harappan Museum Collection

Examples of blade segments and raw materials from HARP sample

Map of the site of Harappa with proposed neighborhoods

Frequencies of the ad hoc industry according to the techno-typological classes produced in various steps of the reduction sequence

Frequencies of different types of texture of raw material used for the ad hoc industry

Ad hoc core dimensions

Technological analysis of ad hoc cores showing isolated removals and series of contiguous removals

Ad hoc core permutations

Technological analysis of ad hoc cores

Technological analysis of ad hoc cores

Retouched and unretouched flake dimensions

Proportion of cortex on flakes

Scar patterns plotted against flakes and flake tools

Typical ad hoc blanks and tools

Northern Belize Chert-bearing Zone and chert- and chalcedony-bearing soils in northern Belize

Map of Maya area, showing the location of San Estevan and Holmul region

Thin oval biface from San Estevan

General Utility Biface from Hamontn

Polished bifacial celt distal fragment from San Estevan

Eccentric from San Estevan

Informal biface from San Estevan

Chert blade from San Estevan

Proximal, medial, and distal fragments of macroblades from San Estevan

Stemmed macroblade

Notch from Ko

Spur notched perforator

Burin spall perforators from San Estevan

Denticulates from San Estevan

Polyhedral cores

Spherical hammerstone from Hamontn

Map showing the location of research

Map of Callar Creek Quarry illustrating the layout of the quarry, production, and household areas

Map of San Lorenzo, SL-28, illustrating the layout of the quarry, production, and household areas

Map of Succotz, TA2-001, illustrating the layout of the quarry, production, and household areas

Photograph of the quarry cut from Callar Creek Quarry

Photographs of typical cores and flakes from Callar Creek Quarry

Image of the sherd with the Buenavista device fragment

Drawing of the Buenavista device

Location of Chalcatzingo in Morelos, Mexico

Sample of representative flakes from Chalcatzingo chert assemblage

Representative sample of cores from Chalcatzingo chert assemblage

Sample of retouched tools from Chalcatzingo chert assemblage

Histogram showing longest linear dimensions of whole cores

Histogram showing masses of whole cores

Histogram showing lengths of whole flakes

Histogram showing masses of whole flakes

Bar chart showing frequencies of striking platform facet patterns

Histogram showing striking platform widths

Closed system lithic raw material acquisition dynamics at Chalcatzingo

Study area of the central Mesa Verde region

The Tewa world

Map showing the reconnaissance in the upper portions of Yellow Jacket Canyon

Map showing all three pueblos and outcrops/quarries of KDB SS

Interaction and exchange systems for obsidian connecting the central Mesa Verde region to other portions of the Southwest

Possible destination areas by the ancestral Pueblo people in the central Mesa Verde region

Frequency of obsidian artifacts in total chipped stone assemblages, by time period

Proportion of obsidian points and non-local bowl sherds through time

Locations of Burlington chert outcrops in northern Arkansas and south-central Missouri

Location of the Carson site relative to Burlington chert resources

Microlithic Burlington chert drills from Structure 1 at Carson

rchaeological features inside the Carson site excavation

Carson samples, Arkansas Ozark material, and Crescent Quarry material

Underside of a typical old threshing sledge (duven) in Kastamonu, Turkey

Closer view of the flint blades inset into the underside of the threshing sledge

Waste cores from blade making, akmak, Turkey

Retired knapper Nihat Yilmaz demonstrates flaking, Harmancik, Turkey

Flintlock mechanism

British gunflint blades segmented to produce characteristic waste bits and finished rectangular gunflints

Indus Tradition chronology

Chronology for the site of Harappa

Count and percentage of Harappan (HARP) lithic sample by major artifact type

Frequency of cortex in Harappan (HARP) sample

Quantitative measures of blade tools from Harappan (HARP) sample

Ratios of blade segments at Indus sites

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