ANTHR206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fire Clay, Stone Tool, Barter

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR206
• Professor: Kisha Supernant

Document Summary

Waste products of tool production (when tool manufactured, you get waste products) Tells us about manufacture methods (producing different debitage indicated different methods of creating stone tools) Process of putting stone tools back together onto core. To give indication of steps/sequences of manufacture and indication of resulting tool. Using stone tool leaves diagnostic wear patterns on the surface (ways in which tools were used) Microscopic investigation of stone tools can sometimes tell how a tool was used and on what materials. Different use wears on tools from different materials- differences on edges. Sometimes also residues on edges of tools (blood/ plant material) Wood: can be seen directly in good preservation. Can be inferred from other technologies (stone, rise of types of tools). Plants/animals: not a lot of plants, animals more common. Bone and antler most common (for use of tools, more malleable). Easy to forget how important these may have been. Artistic depictions show them with little/ no clothing.