Chipped Stone Nodules
Theory, Method, and Examples
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5202963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Lou Larson (University of Wyoming), Marcel Komfeld |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 4-18 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Lithic Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0197-7261 • E-ISSN: 2051-6185 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01977261.1997.11754530 |
| OpenAlex | W2516599423 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 81 |
| References cited | 13 |
With the recent proliferation of refitting studles, grouping artifacts into raw material nodules in preparation for refitting is becoming more common. Even if little is found to fit, the nodules formed in the refitting process still yield Information beyond that which can be gained by Just identifying raw material type, or even raw material source locations for assemblages. We discuss minimumanalytical nodules (MAN) and their analysts (MANA) as a means of further understanding chipped stone technological organization. We use several case studies from the Northwest Plains and Rocky Mountain chipped stone assemblages ranging in age from more than 10.000 to 100 years old in order to address implications for forager technology
Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Metallurgy · Raw material · Yield (engineering · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Materials Science · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
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Inside the Palimpsest
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Cuarzo y paisajes productivos en el Cerro Ampuqcatao (Valle de Tafí, Tucumán) durante el segundo milenio D.C. Aplicación de los Métodos M.A.N.A. y No Tipológico
Folsom Point Diggings
Going after the new without reinventing the wheel
The Northern Fringe of the Swiderian Technological Tradition
Estudio tafonómico comparativo de materiales líticos en sitios en alero y al aire libre en el valle de Ongamira, Córdoba, Argentina
Down by the Seaside
Los enfoques teórico metodológicos en los análisis líticos de Argentina
The Palaeolithic Exploitation of the Lithic Raw Materials and the Organization of Foraging Territory in Northeastern Japan
A behavioral approach to cumulative palimpsests
Tecnología lítica y uso diferencial del espacio en Estancia La Suiza, San Luis, Argentina
Knapping… Sleeping and Consuming? Spatial Variability in the High-Resolution Neanderthal Context of Abric del Pastor (Alcoi, Eastern Iberia)
Bone refits and spatial analyses of units A5-A6 of Fumane cave contribute to reconstructing the dynamics of Neanderthal use of space
Transport wear and its role in understanding prehistoric lithic raw materials management strategies
La señal arqueológica en el interior del bosque en la margen sur del lago San Martín (provincia de Santa Cruz)
Logistical mobility in the eastern Tandilia mountain range (Argentina)
Mana from heaven
Can I get chips with that? Sourcing small obsidian artifacts down to microdebitage scales with portable XRF
Tracking stone
Propuesta metodológica para el estudio de la variabilidad en el uso de fuentes líticas (campo volcánico Pali Aike, Patagonia argentina)
Withdrawn
Protein Analysis of Bugas-Holding Tools
Expediting and standardizing stone artifact refitting using a computerized suitability model
From flow to quarry
Results of Archeological Significance Testing at 41TV410 and 41TV540 and Associated Geomorphological Investigations on a Segment of Onion Creek in Travis County, Texas
A behavioral landscape perspective on silcrete use in hunter-gatherer lithic technologies along the Southern High Plains Eastern Escarpment of Northwestern Texas (USA)
Middle Palaeolithic, Transitional or Upper Palaeolithic
Territorial perspective on lithic caching
Heat Treatment of Chert in the Early Mesolithic at Rottenburg-Siebenlinden (Southwest Germany)
Refitting Bifacial Production Waste – The Case of the Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah Refuse Pit from Ein Zippori, Israel
Inter-site Relationships at the End of the Early Neolithic in North-western Europe, Bartonian Flint Circulation and Macro-features Matching Method
Archaic semisedentary foragers and analytical nodule analysis
New braided knowledge understandings of an Aboriginal earth ring and biik wurrdha (Jacksons Creek, Sunbury) on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, southeastern Australia
Materias primas líticas y uso del espacio en las nacientes del Río Gallegos
Lithic raw material units based on magnetic properties
Micro-lithic production at Abric Romaní levels L and Ob
Sourcing geochemically identical obsidian
(Zoo)Archaeological Refitting
Australian Aboriginal biface reduction techniques on the Georgina River, Camooweal, Queensland
Quartz and silcrete raw material use and selection in late Holocene assemblages from semi-arid Australia
Middle Palaeolithic technical behaviour
Non-Metric Continuum-Based Flake Analysis
Fabricación de puntas de proyectil en los niveles tardíos de la cueva Tres Arroyos 1, Tierra del Fuego
Local and nonlocal rocks
Lithic tool management in the Early Middle Paleolithic
Enculturating Coastal Environments in the Middle Mesolithic (8300–6300 cal BCE) – Site Variability, Human–Environment Relations, and Mobility Patterns in Northern Vestfold, SE-Norway
Raw material availability, flaking quality, and hunter–gatherer technological decision making in northern Tierra del Fuego Island (southern South America)
Going to the Birds
Landscape and Rocks in the East-Central Portion of the Tandilia Range (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)
Ritual stone‐built architecture and shell midden foundation
Análisis Comparativo De Desechos De Talla en Contextos Del Pleistoceno Final/Holoceno Temprano De Chile Y Argentina
The application and misapplication of mass analysis in lithic debitage studies
Beyond the point
Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska
Here and now or a previously planned strategy? Rethinking the concept of ramification for micro-production in expedient contexts
Reconstructing Movement in Prehistory
Stone Tool Research at the End of the Millennium
The Analysis of Stone Tool Procurement, Production, and Maintenance
The Yellow Creek Cache
Playa Archaeology on the Southern High Plains of Texas
Refitting the Great Plains
Hunter-gatherer immediate-return systems
Gearing up for a hunt
Minimum Analytical Nodules and Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Lithic Technological Organization at Hell Gap, Wyoming
Dark matter” of hunter‐gatherers archaeology
Uncovering their tracks
Technological variation in the earliest Oldowan from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
Lithic raw material diversification as an adaptive strategy—Technology, mobility, and site structure in Late Mesolithic northernmost Europe
Investigating hafting and composite tool repair as factors creating variability in backed artefacts
Toolkit Composition and Assemblage Variability
Gypsum Overlook
A Late Paleolithic Housing and Utility Complex at Afontova Gora IV (Ovrazhnaya)
The fragmented character of Middle Palaeolithic stone tool technology
Short and close in time
Reconsidering lithic transport in Middle Palaeolithic assemblages
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway
The Quantification Problem in Stone-Tool Assemblages
A Newly Identified Younger Dryas Component in Eagle Cave, Texas
Looking into Upper Paleolithic gear
Time, energy, and stone tools
Site formation processes in the cody and early plains archaic levels at the laddie creek site, wyoming
Summary of Discussions
Not less than two, not more than three
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Organization and Formation Processes
A Formal Approach to the Design and Assembly of Mobile Toolkits
The Optimal Design of Hunting Weapons
Technological Efficiency and Tool Curation
The Carter/Kerr-McGee Paleoindian Site
Willow Smoke and Dogs' Tails
Fossil Bison and Artifacts From an Early Altithermal Period Arroyo Trap in Wyoming
Vertical Movement of Artifacts in Alluvial and Stratified Deposits
| Unique citing works | 81 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 80 |