- Salve Regina University
Antone Academic Center
100 Ochre Point Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
- University of Wyoming, Anthropology, Adjunctadd
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The Potter site in New Hampshire has yielded a large collection of stone tools from the Early and Middle Paleoindian period. Stone tools are often the only evidence available for studying prehistoric archaeological sites, though their... more
The Potter site in New Hampshire has yielded a large collection of stone tools from the Early and Middle Paleoindian period. Stone tools are often the only evidence available for studying prehistoric archaeological sites, though their function is often poorly understood or inferred from morphological characteristics. In this study I examined 974 artifacts from the Potter site with particular attention to the role of unretouched debitage in the tool kit. My results suggest that not only were unmodified flakes used as tools, but they were used for different activities than were more intensively shaped tools. This study suggests that if only formal tools were examined we would have an inaccurate picture of site activities.
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Four loci interpreted as the location of tents were identified during data recovery at the Tenant Swamp site (27CH187) in Keene, New Hampshire. Complete excavation of each locus yielded over 200 stone tools, calcined bone, and a... more
Four loci interpreted as the location of tents were identified during data recovery at the Tenant Swamp site (27CH187) in Keene, New Hampshire. Complete excavation of each locus yielded over 200 stone tools, calcined bone, and a radiocarbon date indicating occupation during the Paleoindian period. Interpretation of intra-locus spatial patterning revealed a central hearth surrounded by a broad undifferentiated activity area, with sleeping areas on the periphery.
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We argue that variation in Younger Dryas-aged fluting in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains was primarily conditioned by cold-mediated time budgeting concerns. Foragers that lived in cold environments had more time to flute projectile... more
We argue that variation in Younger Dryas-aged fluting in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains was primarily conditioned by cold-mediated time budgeting concerns. Foragers that lived in cold environments had more time to flute projectile points during prolonged periods of downtime relative to those in warmer, southerly environments. We show that fluting meets the expectations of a time budgeting model because (a) its frequency is negatively correlated with temperature and (b) it was most often executed in interior spaces, presumably during prolonged periods of downtime. Aided by a channel flake use wear study, we conclude that fluting was not functional in a purely economic sense. Rather, it was a form of practice, enacted by those for whom wasting time was of little concern.
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Early Archaic human skeletal remains found in a burial context in Lapa do Santo in east-central Brazil provide a rare glimpse into the lives of hunter-gatherer communities in South America, including their rituals for dealing with the... more
Early Archaic human skeletal remains found in a burial context in Lapa do Santo in east-central Brazil provide a rare glimpse into the lives of hunter-gatherer communities in South America, including their rituals for dealing with the dead. These included the reduction of the body by means of mutilation, defleshing, tooth removal, exposure to fire and possibly cannibalism, followed by the secondary burial of the remains according to strict rules. In a later period, pits were filled with disarticulated bones of a single individual without signs of body manipulation, demonstrating that the region was inhabited by dynamic groups in constant transformation over a period of centuries.
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Early Archaic human skeletal remains found in a burial context in Lapa do Santo in east-central Brazil provide a rare glimpse into the lives of hunter-gatherer communities in South America, including their rituals for dealing with the... more
Early Archaic human skeletal remains found in a burial context in Lapa do Santo in east-central Brazil provide a rare glimpse into the lives of hunter-gatherer communities in South America, including their rituals for dealing with the dead. These included the reduction of the body by means of mutilation, defleshing, tooth removal, exposure to fire and possibly cannibalism, followed by the secondary burial of the remains according to strict rules. In a later period, pits were filled with disarticulated bones of a single individual without signs of body manipulation, demonstrating that the region was inhabited by dynamic groups in constant transformation over a period of centuries.
Research Interests: American Studies, Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Nutrition and Dietetics, and 124 moreAnthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Human Evolution, Zooarchaeology, Computed Tomography, Stable Isotope Analysis, Bioarchaeology, Geoarchaeology, Death, Death Studies, Mobility/Mobilities, GeoArcheology, Cultural Transmission (Evolutionary Biology), Brazilian History, Ritual, Cannibalism, Archaeological Soil Micromorphology, Stable Isotopes, Funerary Archaeology, Osteology, Brazil, South America (Archaeology), Bone and Antler, Morphology, Cultural Evolution, Funeral Practices, Physical Anthropology, Prehistoric religion and r ritual a, Religion and ritual in prehistory, Radiocarbon, Taphonomy, Death and Burial (Archaeology), Confocal Microscopy, Deviant burial (Archaeology), Lithic Technology, OSL dating, Ritual (Anthropology), Anthropology of Death, Diatoms, Ritual Theory, Lithics, Burial Practices (Archaeology), Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Stone axes (Archaeology), Mobility (Archaeology), Archaeology of Caves and Caverns (Archaeospeleology), Bayesian Radiocarbon Dating, Osteology (Anthropology), Ritual Zooarchaeology, Archeologia, Hunter-Gatherers (Anthropology), Archaeology of Ritual, Bioanthropology, Bone Technology (Archaeology), Mortuary archaeology, Stable Isotopes in Foodwebs, Lithic Technology (Archaeology), Arqueología, Luminescence (OSL), Mortuary studies, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology, Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene, Ritual Studies, Quaternary palaeontology, Archaeology of burials, Human Osteology, Funerary Practices, Strontium Isotope Analysis, South American Archaeology, Brasil, Zooarqueologia, Arqueologia, Prehistoric Archeology, Antropología cultural, Prehistoric polished stone tools, Neolithic Axes, Bow and Arrow Technology, Projectile technology, South American Indians, Projectile Points, Rituals, The Bow and Arrow, Lithic Projectile Hafting system, Antropología Social, Microwear Analysis, Stone tools, Micromorphology, Antropología, Lithic Analysis, Mortuary Practices, Archaeology of death and burial, Archéologie, Cranial Morphology, Radiocarbon Dating (Archaeology), Sex Estimation, Bone Tools, Burial Customs, Anthropology of Lowland South America, Tecnología Lítica, Craniometry, South America, Archaeological Fire Structures Studies, Karst and Caves, Latin American Archaeology, Zooarcheology, Hunter-Gatherers, Arrowheads, Graves, Lagoa Santa, Pré-História, Pre-history, Funeral Rites, Bioantropología, Archeologia Funeraria, Ritual Practices, Archéologie funéraire, Bioarchaeology, Osteology, Paleopathology, Litico, Bone and Antler Artifacts, Strontium Isotopes, Arte Funerario, Polished Stone Axes, Archeology, and Rituais Funerário
Red chert attributed to the Munsungun Lake geologic formation located in northern Maine is common in terminal-Pleistocene, fluted-point-period lithic assemblages throughout New England. A visually identical material also appears in some... more
Red chert attributed to the Munsungun Lake geologic formation located in northern Maine is common in terminal-Pleistocene, fluted-point-period lithic assemblages throughout New England. A visually identical material also appears in some later-period sites in coastal Maine. Until recently no bedrock source for this red chert showing convincing evidence of precontact use was known. Here we present the NKP site complex, a series of quarry-related stone-tool-manufacturing workshop sites associated with outcrops of high-quality red/green chert. These outcrops represent the only known source of this material with evidence of precontact human use within the Munsungun Lake formation. Although unequivocal fluted-point-period artifacts, such as fluted bifaces, are not yet documented at the NKP complex, the recurrent appearance of red Munsungun chert in fluted-point-period lithic assemblages in New England suggests the manufacture of fluted points took place in the vicinity of these outcrops.