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The Organization of Chipped-Stone Economies at Piedras Negras ...

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combin<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> morphological and technological <strong>at</strong>tributes, but with the specific goal <strong>of</strong><br />

defining one specific industry.<br />

Rovner and Lewenstein (1997; based on the unpublished doctoral thesis <strong>of</strong><br />

Rovner) produced the most detailed typology for the full range microcrystalline-quartz<br />

tools from an entire region. Each type name has a morphological and a technological<br />

aspect (e.g., tapered stem, biface), but in some cases, a name bearing functional<br />

implic<strong>at</strong>ions is used, such as “dagger” and “chisel.” <strong>The</strong> result <strong>of</strong> these studies was to<br />

assign a type name to artifacts th<strong>at</strong> imposed a function, but without the benefit <strong>of</strong> an<br />

exhaustive use-wear analysis. Specific morphological <strong>at</strong>tributes <strong>of</strong> small bifacially and<br />

unifacially worked tools also were recorded in type names, but seem to vary according to<br />

the time period in which the artifact was produced. This inconsistency in nomencl<strong>at</strong>ure<br />

led to a large number <strong>of</strong> type names for bifaces and unifaces in the northern Maya<br />

Lowlands.<br />

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