debitage

Some claim that they can determine the sort of tools used to create the debitage.

He found that 40% of the debitage showed evidence of breakage after deposition and bag wear.

Others feel it is possible to effectively estimate the work-hours represented, or the skill of the workers based on the nature of the debitage.

P. R. Fish, Beyond tools: middle palaeolithic debitage: analysis and cultural inference.

Obsidian debitage continued below these ash layers, suggesting that the area was used as a refuse deposit for a prolonged period.

The burial was capped with over 8,000 pieces of chert debitage and 163 formal chert tools.

The term debitage refers to all the waste material produced during lithic reduction and the production of chipped stone tools.

Since debitage is plentiful, and individual specimens are usually not diagnostic, they can often undergo destructive analysis that would not be suitable for other artifacts.

Far from being waste products, known as debitage, the flakes were at least as useful to early hominids as the chunky cores, they concluded.

In archaeological recovery, hammerstones are often found in association with other stone tool artifacts, debitage and/or objects of the hammer such as ore.

Lithics included debitage and a quartz scraper, suggesting a Native American presence at the site prior to the construction of the house.

Some of the significant artifacts found during the excavations included hearths, a bone tool, projectile points, lithic tools, and debitage.

Quarrying activities, core reduction, biface creation, tool manufacture, and retooling are believed to leave significantly different debitage assemblages.

Twisted Debitage and the Levantine Aurignacian Problem.

They sought to identify activities that occurred at Keatley Creek social habits through examining stone artifacts and debitage (manufacturing waste products).

Vast numbers of heavy tools were found representing the industry of the Qaroun culture including piles of debitage and bifaces.

Retouch, also known as secondary working, is one of the most obvious features distinguishing a tool from a waste by-product of lithic manufacture (debitage).

This is indicated by a lack of production debitage, including polyhedral cores, decortical flakes, and large percussion flakes, among rural occupations.

Obsidian debitage is found in many of these tombs in addition to evidence of its use in temple dedications, potlaching, or offerings.

Thicker blades made in this process were often converted into side scrapers, burins were often created in the same manner from debitage as well.

The analysis of obsidian debitage can reveal whether or not prismatic blade production occurred at a site and, if it had, what stages of production the process included.

The study of the attributes of waste products (debitage) and tools are the most important methods for the study of knapped-stone technology, backed up with experimental production.

Similarly, United States prehistoric archaeologists often rely on significantly diminished counts of lithic flake debitage to assess the excavation unit's trend toward natural stratigraphy.

Debitage refitting is a process whereby the collected assemblages of debitage are painstakingly put back together, like pieces in a puzzle.

The debitage found in all 3 horizons is characteristic of late stage lithic reduction, which shows that the site was used for the same purpose by each set of peoples.