Debitage variability among multiple flint knappers |
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| Authors: | Justin P Williams William Andrefsky |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, 354 Mansfield Rd., Unit 1176, University of Connecticut, CT 06269, USA;2. Institute of Archaeology, University of Jordan, Amman 28170, Jordan;3. Department of Anthropology, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;1. Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, Australia;2. Geoscience and Archaeology, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia;1. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;2. Nevada State Office, U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management, Reno, NV, USA;3. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA |
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| Abstract: | Five flint knappers produced both multidirectional cores and early stage bifaces. The debitage assemblages were compared to evaluate if, and to what degree, the debitage created by one flint knapper varies from that of other flint knappers. The debitage from these reduction episodes was then analyzed with commonly used and replicable debitage attributes. Each knapper was evaluated in terms of his/her individual consistency, and the debitage produced was tested for each ratio scale debitage attribute to ensure that the variability found between knappers was not a product of variation within the assemblages of the individual knappers. The debitage from the individual flint knappers was found to be highly variable between knappers for both technologies. |
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