Download or read book Prehistoric Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Technological Organization in the Upper South Skunk River Valley written by Benjamin John Hoksbergen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of lithic assemblages from 12 prehistoric sites in the upper South Skunk River valley with components ranging from Late Paleoindian through Late Woodland indicates that prehistoric people in the area exploited a wide variety of local and exotic raw materials and organized their lithic reduction technologies in more complex ways than previous models have suggested. With only a few exceptions, all lithic raw material types, regardless of particular physical properties and quality, seem to have been utilized in very similar ways. In general, amorphous core reduction was implemented with reduced frequency as distance from the raw material sources increased. Amorphous cores, however, seem to have been transported over considerable distances, obscuring the role mobility may have played in prehistoric organization of lithic technology.