Heat Treating of Chert

Methods of Interpretation and Their Application

Bibliographic Data

ID9217864
AuthorsMichael B Collins (0000-0002-8511-1302, Department of Anthropology University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 40506), Jason M Fenwick (Department of Anthropology University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 40506)
Year1974
Volume19
Issue64
Pages134-145
Publication date1974-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlains Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2052546.1974.11908696
OpenAlexW796224705
LanguageEN
Citations received42
References cited7

The practice of heating chert to facilitate its flaking has been documented for primitive cultures widely distributed in time and space. The basic procedure for interpreting evidence of prehistoric heat treating is analogy with ethnographic and experimental findings. When this procedure is properly structured in its logic and employs suitable measures of physical property change, sound inferences are possible. In Kentucky, evidence for heat treating of cherts by various prehistoric groups is emerging and indicates that the practice was important in several cultural periods and was practiced widely in the state

Analogy · Archaeology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Interpretation (philosophy) · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Geology · History · Philosophy

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