Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Foreword, by Henry T. Wright
Acknowledgments
Great Lakes Paleo-Indian Systematics
Site Setting
History of Investigation
Overview of Report
The Paleoenvironment, 11,000-10,000 B.P.
Chert Sources
Feature Discovery
Feature 4
Dating Feature 4
Discussion
Cores
Flake Debris Analysis
Comparative Analysis
Interpretations of Flake Debris
Discussion
Introduction
Uniface Attributes
Bifacial Reduction
Nodular or Tabular Core Reduction
Unifaces of Other Material
Conjoinable Fragments
Assemblage Characteristics
Evidence for Hafting
Form and Function of End Scrapers
Conclusion
The Biface Assemblage
Tool Descriptions
Small Bifaces
Later-Period Diagnostic Bifaces
The Biface Reduction Trajectory
Continuous Variation in Fluted Bifaces
Conclusion
Introduction
Discard Processes
Implications of Discard Processes
Analysis
Conclusion
Spatial Analysis in Forager Sites
Spatial Distributions and Structure at Leavitt
Conclusion
Cultural Approaches in Paleo-Indian Studies
Scale of the Paleo-Indian Record
An Organizational Approach
Conclusion
Appendix Archaeobotanical Remains from the Leavitt Site / Kathryn Egan
Bibliography