Finding the people who flaked the stone at English Camp (San Juan Island) / by Angela E. Close.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Close, Angela E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Flintknapping.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Stone implements.

Indians of North America.

Antiquities.

Indians of North America--Implements.

English Camp Site (Wash.).

Indians of North America--Implements--Washington (State)--San Juan Island.

Indians of North America--Washington (State)--San Juan Island--Antiquities.

Stone implements--Washington (State)--San Juan Island.

Tools, Prehistoric--Washington (State)--San Juan Island.

Flintknapping--Washington (State)--San Juan Island.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Washington (State)--San Juan Island.

San Juan Island (Wash.)--Antiquities.

San Juan Island (Wash.).

Washington (State)--San Juan Island.

Physical Description:

xvi, 189 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2006]

Contents:

1 The Concept of the Chaine Operatoire in Context 1

Americanist Approaches to Lithic Analysis as Seen from the Old World 1

Chaines Operatoires 7

Application of Chaine Operatoire to OpD 11

2 Methods of Description and Analysis 13

Typological Analyses 13

Attribute Analyses 19

Statistical Descriptions and Analyses 22

Graphical Descriptions and Analyses 23

3 Raw Material Procurement: Cores 26

Attributes of Cores 33

4 Creation of Blanks: Debitage 38

Simple Flaking 38

Bipolar Flaking 53

Bifacial Flaking 59

Other Crystalline Volcanic Rock Artifacts 62

Discussion of Debitage by Flaking Technique 62

The Creation of Blanks: A Discussion of All Debitage and Cores 72

Deliberate Production of Flakes with Natural (Cortical) Backs 79

5 Selection and Shaping of Blanks: Retouched Tools 85

Endscrapers 85

Perforators 87

Burins 90

Backed Pieces 90

Notched and Denticulated Pieces 91

Truncated Pieces 91

Triangles 92

Other Tools with Extensive Bifacial Retouch 114

Other Retouched Pieces 115

Unidentifiable Retouched Fragments 118

6 Selection of Unshaped Blanks: Scaled Pieces 120

Descriptions by Excavation Unit 120

Other Data for All Scaled Pieces 129

7 Selection of Blanks and Shaping, Use, and Discard of Tools 138

Selection of Blanks 138

Triangles: Shaping, Use(?), and Discard 145

Scaled Pieces and Naturally Backed Flakes: Use and Discard 151

8 The People Who Flaked the Stone at English Camp 158

Raw Material Procurement 159

Tool Production: Creation of Blanks 161

Selection of Blanks and Tool Use by Women 163

Selection of Blanks, Shaping, and Tool Use by Men 163

Discard 165

Appendix Flaked Stone Other than Crystalline Volcanic Rock 167

Cores 167

Debitage 167

Retouched Tools 170

Used Tools 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.

ISBN:

0874808502

OCLC:

62172610

Publisher Number:

9780874808506