Making Sense of Flake Scatters: Lithic Technological Strategies and Mobility

American Antiquity - Tập 64 Số 4 - Trang 593-607 - 1999
Frank L. Cowan1
1Cincinnati Museum Center, Museum of Natural History and Science, Geier Collections and Research Center, 1720 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45202

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Abstract

Recent theoretical developments in the organization of lithic technology provide powerful tools for learning about prehistoric settlement systems and the roles of sites within settlement systems. Strong relationships between mobility and the designs and production methods of stone tools provide a means for testing hypotheses about the functional and organizational roles of sites; this is especially important for learning about "plow zone lithic scatters" and other small, poorly preserved sites. Subsistence-settlement models for three periods of western New York prehistory imply different roles for small sites in the interior of the region. These hypotheses are tested by the analysis of dominant tool-production methods. Strong differences in stone tool assemblages indicate major differences in site roles, but greater analytical detail and discriminatory power are obtained from the analysis of tool-production methods from flakes.

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