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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.
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