Lithic Debitage
Context, Form, Meaning

William Andrefsky Jr.

336 PP., 6 x 9
54 Illustrations
Paper $20.00
ISBN 978-0-87480-768-4

Debitage, the by-product flakes and chips from stone tool production, is the most abundant artifact type in prehistoric archaeological sites. For much of the period in which archaeology has employed scientific methodology, debitage has been discarded or ignored as debris. Now archaeologists have begun to recognize its potential to provide information about the kinds of tools produced and the characteristics of the technology being employed. Debitage can even provide clues regarding human organizational systems such as settlement mobility and site functions.

This volume brings together some of the most recent research on debitage analysis and interpretation. It presents stone tool production experiments and offers detailed archaeological investigations for interpreting variability at the individual and collective levels. Although there are a number of volumes that focus on general analysis of lithic artifacts, this is the first volume to address debitage and should be of use to a wide range of archaeological researchers.

Contributors
Andrew Bradbury, Cultural Resource Analysts, Lexington, KY
Philip Carr, Mississippi State University, Jackson
Jay K. Johnson, University of Mississippi, Oxford
Eric J. Kaldahl, University of Arizona, Tucson
Martin Magne, Parks Canada, Calgary
Albert Pecora, Ohio State University, Columbus
William Prentiss, University of Montana, Missoula
Jeffrey Rasic, Washington State University, Pullman
Kimberly Redman, Alpine Archaeology Consultants, Montrose, CO
Philip Shelley, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales
April Sievert, Indiana University, Bloomington
Alan Sullivan, University of Cincinnati
Steve Tomka, University of Texas, San Antonio
Kristen Wenzel, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales
John Whittaker, Grinnell College, IA
Karen Wise, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

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