By: D. Miller, Andrew Bradbury (Editor), Sarah Price (Editor), Philip J. Carr (Editor)

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Representing work by a mixture of veterans and a new generation of lithic analysts, Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast explores fresh ideas while reworking and pushing the limits of traditional methods and hypotheses.ÿThe variability in the southeastern lithic landscape over space and through time makes it a dynamic and challenging region for archaeologists.ÿ Demonstrating a holistic approach and using a variety of methods, this volume aims to derive information regarding prehistoric lifeways from lithic assemblages.ÿThe contributors use data from a wide temporal span and a variety of sites across the Southeast, ranging from Texas to South Carolina and from Florida to Kentucky. Not merely cautionary tales, these case studies demonstrate the necessity of looking beyond the bag of lithic material sitting in the laboratory to address the key questions in the organization of prehistoric lithic technologies.ÿ How do field-collection strategies bias our interpretations? What is therelationship between technological strategies and tool design? How can inferences regarding social and economic strategies be made from lithic assemblages?ÿContributors
William Andrefsky Jr. / Andrew P. Bradbury / Philip J. Carr / CarolynConklin /D. Randall Cooper / Jason L.Edmonds / Jay D. Franklin / Albert C.Goodyear III /Joel Hardison / Lucinda M. Langston / D. Shane Miller / George H.Odell /Charlotte D. Pevny / Tara L. Potts /Sarah E. Price / Douglas Sain / Sarah C.Sherwood /Ashley M. Smallwood /Paul Thacker

""C""ontemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast" offers excellent examples of the use of lithic analysis to get at aspects of society beyond simple flint knapping. The volume is important and it will provide a very useful reference for cutting-edge (pun intended) methods as well as for the research results."--Rebecca Saunders, coeditor of "Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast"

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Lithic Studies in the Southeast: Retrospective and Future Potential	p. 1
Omnipresent? We Don't Recover the Half of It!	p. 13
Beyond Stages: Modeling Clovis Biface Production at the Topper Site, South Carolina	p. 28
A Comparison of Clovis Blade Technologies at the Topper and Big Pine Tree Sites, Allendale County, South Carolina	p. 42
Distinguishing Taphonomic Processes from Stone Tool Use at the Gault Site, Texas	p. 55
Evaluating Early Archaic Blade and Bipolar Technologies	p. 79
Provisioning Middle Archaic Places: Changing Technological Organization and Raw Material Economy in the Uwharrie Mountains	p. 96
Low-Quality Quartz and Implications for Technological Inferences	p. 113
An Integrated Approach: Lithic Analyses and Site Function, Eagle Drink Bluff Shelter, Upper Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee	p. 128
Shifting Strategies in Chert Use from the Late Archaic to the Early Fort Ancient at Elk Fork in Eastern Kentucky	p. 146
Lithic Reduction at a Middle Woodland Site in Mississippi: Scale, Classification, and Explanation	p. 165
Raising the Bar: Lithic Analysis and Archaeological Research in the Southeast	p. 182
The Organization of Technology Approach in the Southeast: A Call to Arms or a Requiem?	p. 194
Works Cited	p. 203
Contributors	p. 245
Index	p. 247
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ISBN: 9780817356996
ISBN-10: 0817356991
Series: Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication (Paperback)
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 248
Published: 13th July 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.6  x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.454