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  title info:
    title: Sourcing archaeological lithic assemblages
    sub title: new perspectives and integrated approaches
  name:
    name part: Speer, Charles A.
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Parish, Ryan M.
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Barrientos, Gustavo E.
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: utu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 236 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
  abstract: For most of our existence, humans have manipulated stone into tools that are essential for survival. Generally resistant to degradation, stone tools comprise a large portion of the material culture found at archaeological sites worldwide. Recovery of stone tools during archaeological excavation indicates the points where they were discarded, often tied to where they were used. "Sourcing" refers to attempts to determine the origin of the raw materials used to produce these tools. Knowing the beginning and end points of a tool's use-life, as well as the likely paths it took between those two locations, can offer insight into trade and procurement patterns. The scholars gathered in this volume employ a variety of approaches to real-life contexts in multiple geographic regions. Their studies illustrate the numerous, robust options available to archaeologists and researchers today, as well as the problems that must be faced and resolved. Part 1 of the book explores technological approaches to sourcing in conjunction with innovative survey strategies. Each of these chapters describes a particular sourcing method, frequently offering suggestions for improving the associated chemical analysis. Part 2 focuses on region-specific and methodological sourcing applications. In his conclusion, Michael D. Glascock assesses each of the chapters and presents his views, developed across forty years of work in the field, on sourcing raw materials. Broadly, these contributions demonstrate how knowledge of lithic sources, geologic processes, the nature of variation and regional availablility can provide a more thorough understanding of past peoples.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: Sourcing archaeological lithic assemblages / Charles A. Speer, Ryan M. Parish, and Gustavo Barrientos -- Part 1: Variations on a theme: Sourcing toolstone through qualitative and quantitative methods : 2. The use of provenience data to formulate or test provenance hypotheses: GIS-based models for the identification of probable chert silíceo source areas in East-Central Argentina / Luciana Catella, Gustavo Barrientos, Norberto Uriz, Gabriela Coelho Dos Santos, and Fernando Oliva -- 3. Nodules in a haystack: tracing lithic raw material sources in the Atacama Desert / César I. Borie, César Parcero-Oubiña, Ryan Parish, Diego R. Salazar, Carola F. Flores, Laura A. Olguín, Pedro M. Andrade, and Ximena M. Power -- 4. Targeting coastal plains chert in the Wacissa quarry cluster, Northwest Florida, USA: a lidar-based geomorphic model for locating terrestrial chert quarries / Adam M. Burke and Morgan F. Smith -- 5. Sourcing stone and ochre artifacts: a review of why it matters in Australia (and beyond) / Kane Ditchfield, Jillian Huntley, Ingrid Ward, John Webb, Trudy Doelman, and Rebekah Kurpiel -- 6. The promise and challenge of sourcing chert artifacts in the North American Great Basin / Khori Newlander -- 7. Sourcing chert mortuary bifaces as indicators for Hopewell community participation at the Crib Mound site, Indiana, USA / Ryan M. Parish and Bretton T. Giles -- 8. Applying ED-XRF, LA-ICP-MS, and PIXE analyses to characterize Pyrenean cherts: potentials and limitations / Marta Sánchez de la Torre, Franc̦ois-Xavier le Bourdonnec, Stéphan Dubernet, and Bernard Gratuze -- 9. Pilot study in nodular elemental variation / Charles A. Speer -- Part 2: Regional perspectives and sourcing under variable conditions : 10. Raw material procurement and territorial mobility in the Aïn Beni Mathar-Guefaït Region (Eastern Morocco) / María Soto, M. Gema Chacón, Hassan Aouraghe, Juan Ignacio Morales, Hamid Haddoumi, Mohamed Southir, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Andoni Tarriño, S…
  note: edited by Charles A. Speer, Ryan M. Parish, and Gustavo Barrientos.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-229) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Stone implements
    topic: Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Archaeological assemblages
  classification: CC79.5.S76 S68 2023
  classification: 930.1028
  identifier: 9781647691080
  identifier: 1647691087
  identifier: 9781647691103
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220927
    record change date: 20230927203404.2
    record identifier: in00004726374