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	Lithic analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lithic analysis involves measuring various physical aspects of stone tools as well as observing the tool type, its characteristics, the presence features such as cortex, and the like.
		The term 'lithic analysis' can technically refer to any study of humanly-modified stone, but in its usual sense it is applied to archaeological material, either of the ground or knapped variety, particularly stone tools.
		The best known lithic typology is the series established by Francois Bordes (1950) for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of France, where sixty three types of stone tools were defined on the basis of manufacturing techniques and morphological characteristics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lithics (811 words)

	Lithics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Lithics in archaeology cover a vaste range of material from building stones to gemstones.
		Although in theory lithics are the easiest to provenance, practice shows that it is often difficult to match artefact to outcrop.
		The normal method for archaeological lithic studies is transmitted light petrography using standard thin sections.
	www.rosiehardman.com /goodprovenance/lithics.htm (198 words)

	Walls Lithics
		Other generalizations about Walls area lithics include the attribution of small chipped and ground chisels, adzes, or celts and chunky stones to the Walls phase, while sandstone abraders and chipped stone scrapers "appear to be absent" (Smith in Nash 1972:iv).
		As he had stated earlier about Boxtown lithics, he repeats that "such artifact types as projectile points, drills, celts, and chisels, if present at Chucalissa [in the AD 900-1200 interval] are undistinguished from those of later components (Smith 1996:111).
		The 40LA19 lithic complex includes Nodena and isosceles points and chipped and polished celts, while 40LA11, interpreted as a seasonal lithic preparation camp on a bluff crest, had abundant fire-shattered grave, failed heat-treated pebble cores, and unfinished projectile points, of unspecified form (Smith 1996:117).
	www.deltaarchaeology.us /wallslithics.htm (1345 words)

	Cox's Woods Lithics part 3
		Although no formal analysis of the lithic sources for chert debitage has been carried out, it was evident during cataloging that much of the utilized raw material was locally available, fossiliferous cherts which had been heat-treated to improve flaking qualities.
		The lithic collection also contained 28 (complete and fragmented) bifacially flaked pieces of chert for which no certain functions could be determined.
		Finally, a study of the lithic raw material used in the manufacture of triangular projectile points from the Cox's Woods was undertaken as part of a broader investigation of chert utilization during the Oliver Phase.
	www.gbl.indiana.edu /part3/3lithicsB.html (2121 words)

	Lithics
		It’s purpose is to provide a comparative collection of raw lithic material from Colorado and the surrounding region that may be utilized for archaeological research.
		The primary role of the collection is to assist researchers in the identification of lithic source areas for materials retrieved from an archaeological context.
		By comparing field samples to collections from documented lithic sources in the LMRC it is possible to provide data concerning the use and distribution of lithic resources throughout the region.
	www.coloradoarchaeologists.org /lithics.htm (829 words)

	Welcome to the Neolithic Monument Complex of Thornborough, North Yorkshire. The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age ...
		Lithic information from across the study area is variable.
		The only other possible early Neolithic lithics are few and come from isolated, badly provenanced finds of extremely limited and highly dubious interpretative potential.
		There appears to be a general distribution of Neolithic material, consisting of a few scrapers and one leaf shaped arrowhead, from across the study area, although this is obviously biased towards areas which have benefited from some archaeological fieldwork.
	thornborough.ncl.ac.uk /reports/pubs_reports_ureswale/ureswale_assessresults7.htm (197 words)

	Calico Early Man Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		By analyzing these lithics it should be possible to determine their true nature.
		That is, certain segments or portions of the lithic artifact have been modified; these modifications can be observed to exhibit patterned-occurrence frequencies, positions, and sizes, which reflect what the artifact’s manufacturer may have perceived while creating the artifact.
		An example of the integration of known ethnographical functions and prehistoric lithic attribute clusters is evidence in the recognizable patterns that define, for instance, a grinding stone.
	www.wemweb.com /venner/articles/Calico_Early_Man_Site.html (4054 words)

	Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Lithic material comprises Middle Stone Age artefacts, as well as Later Stone Age material on in surficial horizons.
		The majority of lithic tool types are; flakes, flake-blades, convergent flake-blades / points, polyhedral cores, no bifaces have been observed at the site, but have been found within 1km of the site.
		Further some bands particularly the main lithic band seen across the site may reflect a period of aridity during which fragmented natural stones and artefacts accumulated to form what is know as a 'desert pavement'.
	www.arch.soton.ac.uk /Prospectus/CAHO/afresearch.html (3336 words)

	East Lydick Creek - Lithic Artifacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Analysis of lithic materials recovered at East Lydick Creek focused on three topics: distribution of lithic artifacts relative to hypothesized site components and other subsets of the assemblage; the morphology of formal tools and utilized pieces; and the frequency and distribution of various types of lithic raw materials.
		Area A lithics clustered between 15 and 45 cm; Area B lithics were so sparse it is hard to notice any particular distribution but they fell entirely between 10 and 70 cm.
		When the lithic assemblage is broken down by area and vertical provenience, however (as shown in Figure 10), the distributions of these materials show a certain amount of patterning that may reflect discrete occupation episodes.
	www1.minn.net /~pemerson/annex/lydick4.htm (1669 words)

	Concord Lithics - Discussion
		The most common such foreign materials, called "exotic lithics", are a fine bluish mudstone from Cambridge, known as argillite; a fine grained fl felsite with small white crystal inclusion from Westwood; and various shades of felsite from Quincy, Saugus, and Marblehead.
		Other fine exotic lithics can be found from further away, including chert from upstate New York ("Onandanga chert"), catlinite from Minnesota, and real flint [perhaps from a muskett], and a variety of other fine materials.
		Almost all exotic lithic items visible on the surface in eastern Concord are from east of the center on the north side of Bedford Road.
	neara.org /lithic/lithotx1.html (2599 words)

	Clastic Sedimentary Rock Classification
		Lithic means "rock" and all mechanically weathered pieces of another rock, or non-feldspar minerals weathered from a rock, are included here.
		Lithic fragments are especially abundant in volcanic arc systems (Stage E), but are common in most collision mountain buildings (Stage F and Stage H)
		Rocks in these fields have between 10-25 % feldspar or lithics and are thus farther along in their evolution toward pure quartz than feldspathic or lithic rocks.
	csmres.jmu.edu /geollab/Fichter/SedRx/Clastic.html (1862 words)

	STONE TOOLS
		Lithic artifacts are particularly common in Layer II (more than 90 % of all quantity) but are also present in Layers III and IV.
		Most of the artifacts retain sharp edges suggesting little transport and no refits of flakes or tools were observed.
		By the basic knapping technique Dmanisi lithic complex clearly belongs to the Oldowan or mode 1 industries.
	www.dmanisi.org.ge /Lithics.htm (258 words)

	11 July 2001
		The careful training of the field walkers and the policy of collecting all lithics ensured that the assemblage of just over 2500 pieces is representative of the population of lithics in the Mallakastra area.
		The lithic artifacts are likely to be at or near their original positions of deposition.
		We believe that the simple patterns detected in the first preliminary inspection of the lithics are not the result of sampling error, therefore, but represent real patterns characteristic of the archaeological record.
	classics.uc.edu /mrap/lithics01.html (3926 words)

	Scots Bay Lithics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		One pioneer in lithic quarry studies estimated that nine-tenths of the initial reduction materials were left as wastage (Holmes 1919:178), and modern experimental studies tend to support this assertion (e.g., Newcomer 1971).
		The ratio of soil to lithics by weight for each of these layers was.81, while the ratio of soil to lithics by volume for each layer was also identical at 2.4.
		The areal distribution of this high quality lithic material within western Nova Scotia may be a reflection of late prehistoric sociopolitical organization in the region.
	www.mun.ca /archaeology/scotsbay.htm (2967 words)

	ENMU Lithics Collection
		A majority of the raw materials pictured here are from regional source areas in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Kansas; however limited examples of various raw materials from around the world are also included.
		Additional information is available on the ENMU Lithic Type Collection.
		Online lithic collection maintainers may be interested in instructions for maintaining the rocks_lithicsort.txt index file.
	academic.enmu.edu /durands/www/research/lithics/search_lithics.html (323 words)

	Archaeology on the Net - Archaeology Resources on the Internet - Lithics
		Archaeological Lithic Analysis is a reasoned and documented basis for differentiating archaeological probability zones, a corollary of the concept that human behavior is patterned.
		Lithics constitute the bulk of archaeological artifacts in the Northeast.
		The Northeast Lithic Database Workgroup (NELD) is comprised of a cooperative group of archaeologists, geologists and other interested parties.
	members.tripod.com /~archonnet/lithic.html (692 words)

	Walls Lithics
		Few explicit studies of stonework from the Walls phase region or "district" (Shelby Co. TN and Desoto Co. MS) have been attempted, but several summary statements have been made by local workers (Nash, Smith 1996, Lumb and McNutt).
		Other generalizations about Walls area lithics include the attribution of small chipped and ground chisels, adzes, or celts and chunkey stones to the Walls phase, while sandstone abraders and chipped stone scrapers "appear to be absent" (Smith in Nash 1972:iv).
		The 40LA19 lithic complex includes Nodena and isosceles points and chipped and polished celts, while 40LA11, interpreted as a seasonal lithic preparation camp on a bluff crest, had abundant fire-shattered gravel, failed heat-treated pebble cores, and unfinished projectile points, of unspecified form (Smith 1996:117).
	www.deltaarchaeology.us /walls_lithics.htm (1367 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Lithics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		It is written expressly for students and teachers of lithic analysis and will serve this audience well.
		The final section illustrates their application through detailed case studies of lithic analysis from different parts of the...
		This book will help any one understand what is involved in lithic tool production, and shed some light and interesting insight for those that consider themselves advanced in lithic tool study.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521570840 (439 words)

	Overhead - Lithics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Core: a lithic artifact from which flakes are removed, either a tool or a source of flakes, or both.
		Lithic assemblage: the set of lithic artifacts from an archaeological site or within a specific level of a site.
		In both approaches many different attributes or characteristics of lithics are studied.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~fmarshal/lithics.handout.htm (284 words)

	VALLE DE LA PLATA: FORMATIVE 3 COMMUNITIES LITHIC DATA
		This file contains data for lots where lithics were recovered for both the shovel probes and excavations.
		Field 7 indicates that this lot contains 2 lithic fragments and Field 12 indicates that they are both rhyolite.
		Field 7 indicates that there is a total of 1 lithic fragment, Field 12 indicates it is rhyolite, and Field 47 indicates that it is a flake.
	www.pitt.edu /AFShome/l/a/laad/public/html/jaramillo/litico.html (325 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lithics in Action: Papers from the Conference Lithic Studies in the Year 2000 (Lithic Studies Society ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The original purpose of the conference was to celebrate the coming of age of the Lithic Studies Society in its twenty-first year, and to consider the state of research and potential new developments in lithic analysis at the beginning of the twenty-first century AD.
		Most focus on undisturbed lithic sites and use the analysis of refitted lithic artefacts to approach questions of technology, taphonomy, and the human use of space.
		In the second section, Rocks, residues and use-wear, the contributors are concerned with the study of the original characteristics of rocks from different areas of the earth's surface, the selection of specific raw materials for manufacture into tools, the uses to which these tools were put, and how they were used.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1842171305 (481 words)

	Terms Used to Describe Tephra
		Dense rock fragments of a pyroclastic deposit (formed by tephra fall, pyroclastic flow or surge) are referred to as lithics.
		Lithics may be subdivided into (1) cognate lithics, non-vesiculated magma fragments; (2) accessory lithics, rocks from along the magma conduit that have been explosively ejected during eruption; and (3) accidental lithics, rocks that have been eroded and picked up locally by pyroclastic flows and surges.
		Spherical lapilli-sized particles that form as moist aggregates of ash in eruption clouds, usually by rain that falls through dry eruption clouds.
	volcanoes.usgs.gov /Hazards/What/Tephra/tephraterms.html (494 words)

	The Archaeologist's Laboratory: Exercises - Experimental Lithic Use Wear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In other words, if you are trying to investigate motion of use, do not vary the worked material (wood, hide, etc.) and try to use lithic edges that are morphologically very similar and made from the same kind of chert or other material.
		For this lab your students will need a selection of lithic edges, and conceivably they will be able to find enough flakes of similar size, shape, material and edge among the debitage from the earlier flint-knapping laboratory.
		As with other laboratories involving lithics, you should be prepared for the possibility of cut fingers, and do not allow students to retouch any of the lithics unless they are wearing eye and hand protection.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~banning/Labs/312lab09.htm (998 words)

	Ohio Lithics
		Lithic Exchange devoted exhanging examples of flint/chert type material sponsored by Creekside Artifacts.
		Gomer's Restoration services Dr. Gomer repairs/restores/preserves bone, potery, lithic and other prehistoric material..
		Rogers has long good history and understanding of lithic aging and artifakes.
	www.msnusers.com /OhioLithics (439 words)

	Uwharries Lithics Conference: Lee Novick
		Lots of archaeologists have never had a class in lithic analysis, just as, for example, let's say a lot of archaeologists have not had a class in petrology, industrial archaeology or plantation archaeology.
		It can be argued that examining a variety of variables in a lithic study will provide more interpretive information than a mere statement that "a number of lithic artifacts were recovered." Again, it depends on the questions, but a replicable analysis method is advocated here.
		It is essential that all lithic material types and combinations of artifacts and debitage be analyzed.
	www.arch.dcr.state.nc.us /uwharrie/novick26am.html (4455 words)

	Immediate Opening: Lithics Lab Supervisor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Supervisor is responsible for completing or overseeing the completion of all lithic analyses on projects.
		It is preferable that the Supervisor possess a MA in Anthropology, or BA with demonstrated skills in lithic analysis.
		A demonstrated knowledge of lithics in the Midwest Region is necessary.
	zibal.hubris.net /pipermail/acra-l/2000-October/007774.html (257 words)

	Alaskan Chert
		Minor gray, brown to reddish brown, or bright turquoise blue-green chert is associated with basalt in a few areas on the north side of the range.
		The alluvium in these drainages may contain chert pebbles and cobbles that could be a source of lithic material.
		And finally, limestone with chert nodules that could be a source of tool making material is widespread in the Lisburne Hills between Cape Thompson and Cape Lisburne at the extreme western end of the Brooks Range.
	www.alaskanartifacts.com /Lithics/Ak_Typology_Lithic.html (1332 words)

	Outdoors - The Lithics Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Lithics Glossary: Definitions of terms commonly used in the study of lithic technology.
		Lithic Technology: A peer-reviewed journal concerned with dissemination knowledge about archaeological stone tools.
		Embeddedness of Lithic Technology: An article by Leland C. Bement that describes using stone tools to reconstruct Folsom mobility and subsistence practices on the Southern Plains.
	www.traveldir.com /outdoor/site/72 (119 words)

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