Bipolar Reduction Experiments and the Examination of Middle Archaic Bipolar Technologies in West-Central Illinois
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9385359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew P Bradbury (Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-116 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | North American Archaeologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0197-6931 • E-ISSN: 1541-3543 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/na.31.1.d |
| OpenAlex | W2007631859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 25 |
Bipolar reduction has been long recognized as a means of producing flakes from cores. The identification of bipolar debris has implications for assessing the role of bipolar reduction in the organization of lithic technology. Previous work has indicated that the classification of bipolar materials can be difficult. A series of experimental reductions are reported that assist in recognizing bipolar materials from archaeological sites. It is suggested that bipolar technologies are more easily identified at the assemblage level than at the individual flake level. The experimental results are applied to materials recovered from a late Middle Archaic component at 11MG423 in Morgan County, Illinois and indicate a considerable bipolar industry for that site. An examination of other Middle Archaic sites in the region indicates that bipolar industries are represented at a number of sites, though the context of bipolar technology during the Middle Archaic in the region is complex
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Lithic techno-complexes in Italy from 50 to 39 thousand years BP
Refining the Uluzzian through a new lithic assemblage from Roccia San Sebastiano (Mondragone, southern Italy)
Milky Quartz Bipolar Reduction and Lithic Miniaturization
Lithic production strategies in the Middle Paleolithic of the southern Balkans
Technological adaptations of early humans at the Lower Pleistocene Nihewan Basin, North China
New evidence for a 30–10 ka lithic assemblage at Jianshan Cave, Guangxi, South China
Toward disentangling stages in mixed assemblages of flake debris from biface reduction
Deriving original nodule size of lithic reduction sets from cortical curvature
Diversity Under the Bipolar Umbrella
New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique
Applied Regression
Raw Material Variability, Package Size, and Mass Analysis
Combining Aggregate and Individual Methods of Flake Debris Analysis
Wedges, Pieces Esquillees, Bipolar Cores, and Other Things
On Bipolar Reduction and Splintered Pieces
Site Structure Analysis of a Late Middle Archaic Upland Site in Morgan County, Illinois
Modern or Prehistoric
Hits and misses when throwing stones at mass analysis
Tool Kit Entropy and Bipolar Reduction
Bipolar Industries
The Bipolar Technique in Southern Africa
The Analysis of Stone Tool Procurement, Production, and Maintenance
Mass Analysis of Flaking Debris
Effects of Raw Material on Flake Breakage Patterns
Confusion in the Bipolar World
Raw-Material Availability and the Organization of Technology
The Formation of Flakes
The Three Sides of a Biface
Energetic Efficiency and Lithic Technology
Hafting and Retooling
Debitage Analysis and Archaeological Interpretation
The Reliability and Validity of a Lithic Debitage Typology
| Citations per year | 1.18 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |