Finding The People Who Flaked The Stone At English Camp.Finding The People Who Flaked The Stone At English Camp Angela E. Close University of Utah Press The University of Utah Press is a university press that is part of the University of Utah. External link
1795 East South Campus Drive, #101, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9402 www.uofupress.com 0874808502 $45.00 1-800-773-6672 Finding The People Who Flaked The Stone At English Camp: San Juan Island San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States. It has a land area of 142.59 km² (55.053 sq mi) and a population of 6,822 as of the 2000 census. by Angela E. Close (Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington) is a seminal and scholarly study of American approaches to lithic lith·ic 1 adj. Consisting of or relating to stone or rock. Adj. 1. lithic - of or containing lithium 2. lithic - relating to or composed of stone; "lithic sandstone" analysis--that is, attempts to learn more about natural history through the study of the stones of the earth. Especially focusing upon the excavation of English Camp on San Juan island, Finding The People Who Flaked The Stone At English Camp applies an approach based on attempts to trace the life-histories of all excavated artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. , from raw material procurement to discard and entry into archaeological record The archaeological record is a term used in archaeology to denote all archaeological evidence, including the physical remains of past human activities which archaeologists seek out and record in an attempt to analyze and reconstruct the past. , and concludes that women did a great deal of the tool manufacture at the English Camp site. A highly precise and technical scientific study and persuasive discourse. |
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