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Grinding-Tool Design as Conditioned by Land-Use Pattern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Margaret C. Nelson  and
Heidi Lippmeier
Margaret C. Nelson
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14261
Heidi Lippmeier
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14261
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Abstract

The form in which archaeologists recover artifacts is the product of intentional design, use modification, and postdepositional alteration. Analysis of grinding tools, from small prehistoric sites in southwestern New Mexico, indicates the effects of intentional design and use modification on artifact form. These variables of technological behavior are considered in relation to anticipated, regular occupation of sites. Distinguishing the extent to which site visits are anticipated and regular can enhance our understanding of how places and resources were used and how land use was organized. Because grinding tools commonly remain on sites, their anticipated reuse signals anticipated reuse of the places where they occur. While characteristics of intentional design positively correlate with regularity of site occupation, the effects of use modification do not.

Resumen

Resumen

La morfología de los artefactos recuperados por arqueólogos es el producto de diseño intencional, modificación de uso y alteraciones occurridas después de que los artefactos fueron depositados. El análisis de piedras para moler provenientes de pequeóos sitios prehistóricos en el sudoeste de Nuevo México indica los efectos del diseño intencional y modificacíon de uso en la morfología de los artefactos. Estas variables de conducta tecnológica son examinadas en relación a la ocupación regular y anticipada de los sitios. Al entender hasta qué punto las visitas a los sitios eran anticipadas y regulares podremos aumentar nuestro conocimiento acerca de la manera como los sitios y los recursos fueron usados y de cómo el uso de la tierra estaba organizado. Puesto que las herramientas para moler son generalmente dejadas en los sitios en vez de ser transportadas de un lugar a otro, su reuso anticipado indica el reuso anticipado de los sitios en los cuales dichas herramientas son halladas. Se ha encontrado una correlación positiva entre las características de diseño intencional y la regularidad de ocupación de sitios. Sin embargo tal correlacción no existe entre este último factor y los efectos de modificación de uso.

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American Antiquity , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , April 1993 , pp. 286 - 305
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1993

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