essay
The Flaked stone assemblage from SBA-46
Archaeological investigations at Helo' on Mescalitan Island, prepared by Lynn H. Gamble • Santa Barbara, Calif. • Published In 1990 • Pages: 10-1 to 10-115
By: Bamforth, Douglas B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Bamforth examines the flakes stone tool and debitage assemblage from SBA-46. Bamforth emphasizes the kinds of raw materials used, the kinds of tools produced on the site, and he looks at how they were produced, such as bipolar reduction. Microwear analysis was also conducted to determine how individual stone tools were used (to work dry hide, drill shell beads, etc.). More than one half of this chapter is tables of the statistical analyses. Bamforth concludes that the occupants of HELO' were conservative in that they maintained their traditional reliance on stone tools through the protohistoric period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Laboratory analysis of materials other than dating methods in archaeology
- Mineral resources
- Sociocultural trends
- Jewelry manufacture
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Late Southern California
- 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
- Northwest Coast and California
- 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 ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3500 BP-1700 BP (Middle Period) and 229 BP-196 BP (1771 A.D. to 1804 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- HELO' (CA-SBA-46), Calif., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Douglas B. Bamforth
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 10-41 to 10-44)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- California--Antiquities