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Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology

Designing EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH in Archaeology

Examining Technology Through Production and Use

EDITED BY

Jeffrey R. Ferguson

2010 by the University Press of Colorado

Published by the University Press of Colorado
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Printed in the United States of America

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

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481992

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Designing experimental research in archaeology : examining technology through production and use / Jeffrey R. Ferguson, editor.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60732-038-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-60732-022-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. ArchaeologyResearch. 2. ArchaeologyExperiments. 3. ArchaeologyMethodology. 4. Material cultureHistory. 5. TechnologyHistory. I. Ferguson, Jeffrey R., 1976

CC83.D47 2010

930.1072dc22

2010005618

Design by Daniel Pratt

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Contents

Erik J. Marsh and Jeffrey R. Ferguson

Karen G. Harry

Margaret E. Beck

Philip J. Carr and Andrew P. Bradbury

Douglas B. Bamforth

Robert J. Jeske, Daniel M. Winkler, and Dustin Blodgett

Jenny L. Adams

Edward A. Jolie and Maxine E. McBrinn

John Whittaker

Leland C. Bement

Patrick M. Lubinski and Brian S. Shaffer

Contributors

JENNY L. ADAMS

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Desert Archaeology, Inc.

3975 N. Tucson Boulevard

Tucson, Ariz. 85716

jadams@desert.com

DOUGLAS B. BAMFORTH

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Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado-Boulder

UCB233

Boulder, Colo. 80309

douglas.bamforth@colorado.edu

MARGARET E. BECK

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Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa

114 MacBride Hall

Iowa City, Iowa 52242

margaret-beck@uiowa.edu

LELAND C. BEMENT

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Oklahoma Archeological Survey, University of Oklahoma

111 E. Chesapeake

Norman, Okla. 73019

lbement@ou.edu

DUSTIN BLODGETT

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Anthropology Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

290 Sabine Hall

3413 N. Downer Avenue

Milwaukee, Wis. 53201

ANDREW P. BRADBURY

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Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc.

151 Walton Avenue

Lexington, Ky. 40508

apbradbury@crai-ky.com

PHILIP J. CARR

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Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, University of South Alabama

HUMB 34

Mobile, Ala. 36688

pcarr@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

JEFFREY R. FERGUSON

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University of Missouri Research Reactor Center

1513 Research Park Drive

Columbia, Mo. 65211

fergusonje@missouri.edu

KAREN G. HARRY

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Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

4505 Maryland Parkway

Box 455003

Las Vegas, Nev. 89154

karen.harry@unlv.edu

ROBERT J. JESKE

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Anthropology Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

290 Sabine Hall

3413 N. Downer Avenue

Milwaukee, Wis. 53201

jeske@uwm.edu

EDWARD A. JOLIE

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Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

MSC01 1040

1 University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, N.M. 87131

edjolie@unm.edu

PATRICK M. LUBINSKI

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Department of Anthropology, Central Washington University

400 E. University Way

Ellensburg, Wash. 98926

lubinski@cwu.edu

ERIK J. MARSH

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Department of Anthropology, University of California-Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, Calif. 93106

emarsh@umail.ucsb.edu

MAXINE E. MCBRINN

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PaleoCultural Research Group

555 Burbank Street, Unit A

Broomfield, CO 80020

arch81c@yahoo.com

BRIAN S. SHAFFER

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3804 Montecito Road

Denton, Tex. 76205

bsshaffer@charter.net

JOHN WHITTAKER

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Department of Anthropology, Grinnell College

Grinnell, Iowa 50112

whittake@grinnell.edu

DANIEL M. WINKLER

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Anthropology Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

290 Sabine Hall

3413 N. Downer Avenue

Milwaukee, Wis. 53201

dwinkler@uwm.edu

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Preface

This volume developed as a result of a research project I began in 1999. I was interested in interpreting the microwear patterns on an assemblage of large obsidian bifaces from the Malheur Basin in eastern Oregon. Microwear studies constitute an area of archaeological inquiry almost entirely dependent on experimental archaeology. Until wear patterns are developed under known and controlled conditions and then observed under magnification, it is not possible to confidently link unknown microwear traces with known uses for stone tools. In fact, even distinguishing between true microwear and pre- and post-depositional damage requires some knowledge of wear patterns developed through experimental means.

Microwear studies of flint tools have been commonplace for decades (Burroni, Donahue, and Pollard 2002; Keeley 1980; Kimball 1994; Nance 1971); however, obsidian has received relatively little attention (Lewenstein 1987), in part because of the lack of polish development in comparison to coarser-grained materials such as cherts. To try to interpret the patterns observed on the Malheur bifaces, I began an experimental program aimed at developing a variety of different wear patterns resulting from a broad spectrum of potential past tool uses. I read many reports on microwear analysis; most referred to some experimentally derived reference collection, but little was written about the process of developing a microwear reference collection. For example, I was interested in how to determine an appropriate set of wear-inducing behaviors, how to actually generate the wear patterns, and how to document the experiment.

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