Transport Distance and Debitage Assemblage Diversity: An Application of the Field Processing Model to Southern Utah Toolstone Procurement Sites

Dados Bibliográficos

AUTOR(ES) R. Kelly Beck
ANO 2008
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO American Antiquity
ISSN 0002-7316
E-ISSN 2325-5064
EDITORA Elsevier (Netherlands)
DOI 10.1017/s0002731600047399
CITAÇÕES 4
ADICIONADO EM Não informado

Resumo

Understanding the decisions made at toolstone procurement localities is critical to understanding lithic production systems. However, lithic assemblages at procurement sites are typically voluminous, frequently overlapping, and always complex. This paper explores the influence of expected toolstone transport distance on procurement site assemblage variability using a central place theory inspired model from Human Behavioral Ecology. Debitage assemblage diversity is examined for 43 sites in two procurement contexts with different expected overall transport distances. Twenty-six of these sites are from the Canyonlands region of southeastern Utah where toolstone transport distances are expected to be uniformly short; seventeen sites are from the Black Rock desert region of west-central Utah where transport distances are expected to be longer. Observed differences in debitage assemblage diversity from each procurement context are consistent with expectations derived from the model which suggests that procurement site assemblage variability is predictably affected by expected toolstone transport distance.

Effects of distance from stone source on landscape-scale variation in Oldowan artifact assemblages in the Paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania

(2008)

Re-Thinking Great Basin Foragers: Prestige Hunting and Costly Signaling during the Middle Archaic Period

(2005)

Should we expect large game specialization in the late Pleistocene? An optimal foraging perspective on early Paleoindian prey choice

(2005)

Declining foraging efficiency and moa carcass exploitation in southern New Zealand

(2005)

Ferramentas

Acessar via DOI