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Raw Materials Source Areas and “Curated” Tool Assemblages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard Michael Gramly
Richard Michael Gramly*
Affiliation:
Maine State Museum, State House, Augusta, ME 04333
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Abstract

Excavation of the workshop of an ancient rhyolite quarry yielded three classes of artifacts. One class consists of worn and broken tools made of exotic stones. It is argued that these tools represent a "curated" assemblage and one that is highly revealing of the duration and distance of population movements.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , October 1980 , pp. 823 - 833
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980

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