Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast: Problems, Solutions, and Interpretations

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Contents list of illustrations ix 1. lithic studies in the southeast: retrospective and Future Potential Philip J. Carr, Andrew P. Bradbury, and Sarah E. Price 1 2. omnipresent? we Don’t recover the half of it! Sarah E. Price 13 3. beyond stages: Modeling clovis biface Production at the topper site, south carolina D. Shane Miller and Ashley M. Smallwood 28 4. A comparison of clovis blade technologies at the topper and big Pine tree sites, Allendale county, south carolina Douglas Sain and Albert C. Goodyear III 42 5. Distinguishing taphonomic Processes from stone tool use at the Gault site, texas Charlotte D. Pevny 55 6. evaluating early Archaic blade and bipolar technologies Andrew P. Bradbury and Philip J. Carr 79 7. Provisioning Middle Archaic Places: changing technological organization and raw Material economy in the uwharrie Mountains Paul T. Thacker, Joël Hardison, and Carolyn Conklin 96 8. low-Quality Quartz and implications for technological inferences Tara L. Potts 113 9. An integrated Approach: lithic Analyses and site Function, eagle Drink bluff shelter, upper cumberland Plateau, tennessee Jay D. Franklin, Maureen A. Hays, Sarah C. Sherwood, and Lucinda M. Langston 128 viii / Contents 10. shifting strategies in chert use from the late Archaic to the early Fort Ancient at elk Fork in eastern Kentucky D. Randall Cooper 146 11. lithic reduction at a Middle woodland site in Mississippi: scale, classification, and explanation Jason L. Edmonds 165 12. raising the bar: lithic Analysis and Archaeological research in the southeast William Andrefsky Jr. 182 13. The organization of technology Approach in the southeast: A call to Arms or a requiem? George H. Odell 194 works cited 203 contributors 245 index 247 ...