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The Leavitt Site: A Parkhill Phase Paleo-Indian Occupation in Central Michigan

Michael J. Shott, with a foreword by Henry T. Wright
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This illustrated monograph is an innovative analysis of forager archaeology in general and Paleo-Indian studies in particular. This is a companion volume to Thedford II: A Paleo-Indian Site in the Ausable River Watershed of Southwestern Ontario (Memoir 24).
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Foreword, by Henry T. Wright
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction and Narrative of Investigation
    • Introduction
    • Great Lakes Paleo-Indian Systematics
    • Site Setting
    • History of Investigation
    • Overview of Report
  • Chapter 2. The Environmental Context of Occupation at Leavitt
    • Introduction
    • The Paleoenvironment, 11,000-10,000 B.P.
    • Chert Sources
  • Chapter 3. Site Stratigraphy
    • Feature Discovery
    • Feature 4
    • Dating Feature 4
    • Discussion
  • Chapter 4. Core and Flake Debris
    • Cores
    • Flake Debris Analysis
    • Comparative Analysis
    • Interpretations of Flake Debris
    • Discussion
  • Chapter 5. Unifaces
    • Introduction
    • Uniface Attributes
    • Bifacial Reduction
    • Nodular or Tabular Core Reduction
    • Miscellaneous Artifacts
    • Unifaces of Other Material
    • Conjoinable Fragments
    • Assemblage Characteristics
    • Evidence for Hafting
    • Form and Function of End Scrapers
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Bifaces
    • Introduction
    • The Biface Assemblage
    • Tool Descriptions
    • Small Bifaces
    • Broken Bifaces
    • Later-Period Diagnostic Bifaces
    • The Biface Reduction Trajectory
    • Continuous Variation in Fluted Bifaces
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. Assemblage Formation Process
    • Introduction
    • Discard Processes
    • Implications of Discard Processes
    • Analysis
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8. Spatial Analysis
    • Spatial Analysis in Forager Sites
    • Spatial Analysis in Great Lakes Paleo-Indian Sites
    • Spatial Distributions and Structure at Leavitt
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion
    • Introduction
    • Cultural Approaches in Paleo-Indian Studies
    • Scale of the Paleo-Indian Record
    • Scales of Data Recovery
    • An Organizational Approach
    • Conclusion
  • Appendix Archaeobotanical Remains from the Leavitt Site / Kathryn Egan
  • Bibliography
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Published: 1993
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-951538-01-9 (ebook)
  • 978-0-915703-32-6 (paper)
Series
  • Memoirs
Subject
  • Michigan and the Great Lakes
  • Archaeology:New World
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