Lithic Activity Area Investigations at the Longhorn Site (41KT53) in the Upper Brazos River Basin, Western Texas

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9218217
AutoresKathryn Smith (0000-0002-7521-7875, autor de correspondencia), Kathryn M Smith
Año2012
Volumen57
Número222
Páginas91-108
Fecha de publicación2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPlains Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/pan.2012.011
OpenAlexW2137246977
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas19

Lithics from the Longhorn site (41KT53) represented the majority of artifacts recovered from a seventeenth century Native American encampment in western Texas. Both tools and debitage were reanalyzed utilizing macroanalysis to identify stages of their life histories. ArcGIS maps then allowed for the examination of these lithics’ spatial relations across the site. This patterning was evident in clusters of artifact types representing various stages of flintknapping processes. Both cultural and noncultural processes also were examined to determine their role in the creation, distribution, and disturbance of the site’s lithics and related features. Results focused on the roles of these processes concerning activities performed during the site’s occupation. Aspects of trade and mobility were inferred based on the site’s lithic content and position on the landscape, providing a broader representation of late Holocene hunter-gatherer life along the eastern edge of the southern High Plains

Archaeology · Art · Artifact (error) · Biology · Culture of the United States · Debitage · Geography · Stone tool · Structural basin · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies · Geology · Paleontology