ANTH 114B: Lithic Technology II

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 4 hours

Catalog page 96

Prerequisites: ANTH 114A and consent of instructor

Description: The technology of core- and-blade industries, ground-stone industries, and millstone industries. Percussion- and pressure-blade reduction sequences and strategies, emphasizing quarrying, initial reduction, core production, blade production, and production and use of tools from blades. Technology and production of ground-stone tools, and the quarrying of raw material and production of millstones. Assemblage formation processes and their interpretation.

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Serves as a prerequisite for

ANTH 114C
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