Chipped Stone Technological Organization: Central Place Foraging and Exchange on the Northern Great Plains - Couverture rigide

Johnson, Craig M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1607816725 ISBN 13 : 9781607816720

Editeur : University of Utah Press,U.S., 2019

Synopsis

Over a 40-year period, Craig Johnson collected data on chipped stone tools from nearly 200 occupations along the Missouri River in the Dakotas. This book integrates those data with central place foraging theory and exchange models to arrive at broad conclusions supporting archaeological theory. The emphasis is on the last 1,000 years, when the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara farmer-hunters dominated the area, but also looks back some 10,000 years to more nomadic peoples. The long timespan and large number of villages and campsites help define changes through time and over large distances of local and nonlocal tool stone and its manufacture into arrow points, knives, and other tools.

Central place foraging theory, through the field processing model, posits that the farther a source material is from the central living area, the more it will be processed before it is transported back, to avoid hauling heavy, nonusable parts on long trips. Johnson's data support this theory and demonstrate that this model applies not only to nomadic hunter-gatherers but also to semisedentary farmer-hunters. His results also indicate that toolstone usage creates distinctive spatial patterns along the Missouri River, largely related to village distance from the sources. This is best illustrated with Knife River flint, which gradually declines in popularity downriver from its source in west-central North Dakota but increases in central South Dakota because of exchange.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Craig Johnson worked as a professional archaeologist in Minnesota for nearly three decades, has conducted research on the North American Northern Plains since 1975, and is a participating member in the PaleoCultural Research Group.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Utah Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1607816725
• ISBN 13: 9781607816720
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
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• Personne responsable: non disponible