Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword, by Henry T. Wright
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction and Background
Site Location, Setting and Investigations
Diagnostics
Siliceous Artifacts: Lithic Raw Materials
Artifact Fracture Patterns
Location of Features
Distribution of Diagnostics
Distribution of Non-Diagnostic Material
Artifact Refits
Summary
Part II: Feature #1
4. Feature #1 Lithic Artifacts: Tool Blanks and Unifaces
Blank Types and Core Production Procedures
Unifacial Tools
Fluted Bifaces
Other Bifaces
Tools on Granitic Rocks
Overall Artifact Distribution, Feature Size and Feature Shape
Soil Analyses
Distributions of Different Artifact Forms
Summary and Discussion
7. Feature #1: Its Meaning and Significance
Is Feature #1 a Cache?
Utilitarian or Ceremonial Goods?
Deliberate or Natural Burning?
Is Feature #1 a Functional, “Active” Tool Kit?
Feature #1: An Individual’s Tool Kit?
8. Technological Organization: Explaining the Feature #1 Contents by Christopher J. Ellis
Factors Influencing Tool Inventories
Summary and Conclusions
Part III: Other Paleoindian Evidence
The Unheated Paleoindian Assemblage
The Heated Assemblage (Feature #2)
Unassignable Heated Artifacts
10. Feature #2
Summary and Conclusions
Part IV: The Crowfield Site: Summary and Conclusions
11. Summary and Conclusions
Appendix A. Feature #1: Unifaces and Blank Data
Appendix B. Feature #1: Fluted Biface Data
Appendix C. Feature #1: Data on Other Bifaces
References Cited