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The Use of Chipped Lithic Material in the Contemporary Maya Highlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Brian Hayden  and
Margaret Nelson
Brian Hayden
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby 2, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
Margaret Nelson
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Abstract

Ethnoarchaeological work in the Mayan Highlands has revealed that some individuals continue to make and use chipped stone implements for the manufacture of manos and metates. As a result site formation processes, effects of resource distribution, and stone tool characteristics can still be studied. Chipped tools of industrial glass are also made and used in the area, and provide useful models for some of the prehistoric uses of flaked stone tools, as well as information relating to their storage, curation, discard, and learning contexts.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 885 - 898
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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