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Broadspear lithic technology: some aspects of biface manufacture, form, and use history with insights towards undestanding assemblage diversity
experiments and observations on the terminal archaic of the middle atlantic region • Bethlehem, Ct • Published In 1990 • Pages: 105-130
By: Cresson, Jack, Mounier, R. Alan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Cresson and Mounier examine broadspear lithic technologies with '[d]ata on empirical, experimental, technological, ethnological, archaeological, and functional lines of evidence…' (page 125). They point out that most researchers fail to look at broadspears as part of a system of biface tools that have to provide a continuum of tool uses. They also explore the possible importance of bifaces as status symbols, in addition to being tools.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Late Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 5000 BP-3000 BP (3000 B.C.-1000 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jack Cresson, R. Alan Mounier
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90205480
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities