Rhyolite Use during the Fluted Point Period in New England and Southern Québec

Kitchel, Nathaniel

doi:10.1080/20555563.2017.1384663

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“…Between about 13,000 and 11,600 cal BP, Early and Middle Paleoindian populations exploited several primary toolstone sources in northeastern North America, including Normanskill chert in New York (Funk 2004; Lothrop and Bradley 2012), Hardyston Formation jasper in Pennsylvania and New Jersey (Hatch 1994), Cheshire quartzite in Vermont (Crock and Robinson 2012), spherulitic rhyolite in New Hampshire (Kitchel 2017; Pollock et al 2008), Munsungun Formation chert in Maine (Pollock et al 1999), and Minas Basin chert in Nova Scotia (Black 2011; Supplemental Figure 1). In New York, Devonian limestones containing cherts are exposed along the Onondaga and Helderberg escarpments of the Appalachian Plateaus (Fisher et al 1970).…”

Section: Paleoindian Toolstone Use In Northeastern North Americamentioning

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Coupling Lithic Sourcing With Least Cost Path Analysis to Model Paleoindian Pathways in Northeastern North America

Lothrop

Burke²,

Winchell-Sweeney³

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Am. Antiq.

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Projections of Paleoindian range mobility in the late Pleistocene are typically inferred from straight-line distances between toolstone sources and sites where artifacts of these raw materials have been found. Often, however, these sourcing assessments are not based on geologic analysis, raising the issue of correct source ascription. If sites of similar age can be linked to a toolstone source through geologic study, and direct procurement of toolstone can be inferred, geographic information systems (GIS) modeling of travel routes between the source and those sites can reveal route segments of annual rounds and aspects of landscape use. In the Hudson Valley of eastern New York, Paleoindian peoples exploited Normanskill chert outcrops for toolstone during the late Pleistocene. Here, we combine X-ray fluorescence sourcing results that link Normanskill chert artifacts at Paleoindian sites to the West Athens Hill source outcrop in the Hudson Valley with GIS least cost path analysis to model seasonal pathways of late Pleistocene peoples in northeastern North America.

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Section: Paleoindian Toolstone Use In Northeastern North Americamentioning

confidence: 99%