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Journal article
Raw Material Availability and the Organization of Technology
American antiquity., Vol.59, pp.21-35
1994
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/5973
Abstract
Ethnographic examples of stone-tool makers in Australia and archaeological examples from three different areas in the western United States indicate that the availability of lithic raw materials is an important variable conditioning stone-tool production technology. Attributes of availability such as abundance and quality of lithic raw materials condition the production of formal- vs. informal-tool types. Poor-quality raw materials tend to be manufactured into informal-tool designs. High-quality lithic raw materials tend to be manufactured into formal tool designs when such materials occur in low abundance. When high-quality materials occur in great abundance both formal- and informal-tool designs are manufactured. Other factors, such as residential mobility or sedentism, are found to be less-important determinates of lithic-production technology.
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- Title
- Raw Material Availability and the Organization of Technology
- Creators
- William Andrefsky (Author)
- Publication Details
- American antiquity., Vol.59, pp.21-35
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- American Antiquity
- Identifiers
- 99900502067801842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article