Date of Award
Spring 2022
Degree Type
Honors Project
School
College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
Brian Hoffman
Abstract
The way lithic artifacts are analyzed is critical to understand human behavior. How lithic attributes are measured can add important context to archaeological sites and experimental lithic collections. By re-evaluating the way we analyze lithic reduction strategies and measure lithic attributes, we can come to a conclusion as to how they compare. In the project that will be described, nine lithic experiments created by expert flintknapper, Dan Wendt, will be measured and analyzed in accordance with the Hamline University Archaeology Lab Debitage Analysis Protocol. Assessing the data collected from these nine experimental collections allowed me and my fellow researcher, Eva Larson (2022), to answer important questions related to middle-range theory, the technical significance that certain attribute measurements bring, and potentially to be able to locate diagnostic differences between lithic reduction strategies used, based on the data collected.
Recommended Citation
Bergene, Hannah Dory, "Assessment of Lithic Reduction Methods" (2022). Departmental Honors Projects. 105.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/dhp/105
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DigitalCommons@Hamline
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Departmental Honors Projects
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