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Child, Mark B. 1997 PN 18: Excavaciones en el Baño de Vapor R-13. In Proyecto Arqueológico Piedras Negras: Informe Preliminar No. 1, Primera Temporada, 1997. Héctor Escobedo and Stephen Houston, eds. Technical Report. Guatemala City: Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala (IDAEH). Child, Mark B., and Jessica Child 2001a PN 5C: Excavaciones en el Baño de Vapor P-7. In Proyecto Arqueológico Piedras Negras: Informe Preliminar No. 4, Cuarta Temporada, 2000. Héctor Escobedo and Stephen Houston, eds. Pp. 1-6. Technical Report. Guatemala City: Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala (IDAEH). 2001b PN 59A: Excavaciones en la Estructura R-8. In Proyecto Arqueológico Piedras Negras: Informe Preliminar No. 4, Cuarta Temporada, 2000. Héctor Escobedo and Stephen Houston, eds. Pp. 389-404. Technical Report. Guatemala City: Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala (IDAEH). Child, Jessica, and Mark B. Child 2001 PN 55A: Excavaciones en la Estructura R-3 y la Plataforma R-32. In Proyecto Arqueológico Piedras Negras: Informe Preliminar No. 4, Cuarta Temporada, 2000. Héctor Escobedo and Stephen Houston, eds. Pp. 329- 338. Technical Report. Guatemala City: Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala (IDAEH). Childs, Terry S. 1998 Social Identity and Specialization Among Toro Iron Workers in Western Uganda. In Craft and Social Identity. C. L. Costin and R. P. Wright, eds. Pp. 109-222. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 8. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. Childs, S. T., and Dewey, J.W. 1996 Forging symbolic meaning in Zaire and Zimbabwe. In The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production. Peter Schmidt, ed. Pp. 145-171. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Clark, John E. 1982 Manufacture of Mesoamerican Prismatic Blades: An Alternative Technique. American Antiquity 47(2):355-376. 1987 Politics, Prismatic Blades, and Mesoamerican Civilization. In The Organization of Core Technology. Jay K. Johnson and Carol A. Morrow, eds. Pp. 259-284. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 340
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE
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Acknowledgements Foremost, I thank
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ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION The Or
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TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES
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5.4.1.1.5: Large laurel leaf biface
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7.2.1: Hypothesis 1……………
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6.2: Examples of possible pressure-
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LIST OF TABLES Chapter 4: Lithic Re
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the royal palace had more access to
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argued that most studies intended t
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The research presented here submits
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flakes of microcrystalline quartz,
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whereby data were recorded. The hyp
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ecause the debate actually concerns
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“technological-resource realm”
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and another chert production locale
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activities may in turn have given r
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Most of these studies are somewhat
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consequence of this perspective is
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study is but one more building bloc
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avoids the problem of how to charac
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and probably did, have multiple occ
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for them, but also the status of wh
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which represents nondiscursive prac
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ideology, hegemony, and similar con
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can overlap through religious and s
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the codification of belief implies
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[A] relatively autonomous and struc
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materialize” (2000:140; my emphas
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itualized production should not be
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commonplace (cf. Childs 1998). Ritu
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[R]ituals employed during manufactu
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Another Aztec example indicates tha
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period documents, charters other fo
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Although this passage describes a s
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materials, such as the central Pet
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emergent craft ideologies, and an o
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not to say that production, even ri
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Pennsylvania that yielded an import
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information from new excavations is
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interpretation, are mentioned on Ea
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e interpreted as being structurally
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of his father, if we can consider t
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Figure 3.1: Teotihuacan-style mount
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Figure 3.3: Column altar Cache R-5-
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the city. Since the ceramic chronol
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some residential groups feature mor
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from the seat of power by many diff
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microcrystalline quartzes were rese
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eceived these scores from moderate
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Figure 3.4: Two examples of hammers
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used, they probably had a lesser ex
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typology chapters of this study, bu
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degree to which lithic production w
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Furthermore, general patterns of pr
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previously (see Chapter 5). A typol
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and between nodules, which were sel
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of these materials are nodular flin
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eduction flakes found at the site (
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Table 4.1 depicts the percentages b
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Table 4.2 depicts microcrystalline-
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from Ixtepeque, the opaque black co
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Table 4.3: Counts and percentages o
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Table 4.4: The total counts and wei
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Table 4.5 continued. 116
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According to the three spatial grou
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4.2.2: Color and Quality of El Chay
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quartz eccentrics from the two site
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systematic sourcing program for mic
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technological typology that focuses
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establishing chronologies, and also
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Aside from these speculative accoun
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combination of morphological and te
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Shafer and Hester (1983) also creat
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(in Rovner and Lewenstein 1997:23),
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primary technological trait, such a
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#1-Large Celt Biface, Thin Kidder 1
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#7-Large, Stemmed Biface Hester 198
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#20-Medium Circular Biface Rectangu
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#30-Small Stemmed Biface Ricketson
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typological variation also may stem
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This form is thoroughly described i
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Figure 5.3.2: Examples of thick cel
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Figure 5.4: A celtiform-biface frag
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describes the technology and morpho
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The working bit is produced by a si
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5.4.1.1.7: Large stemmed biface (se
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5.4.1.2: Medium-sized artifacts (8
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ased on proximal or medial fragment
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Figure 5.7: Medium-sized oval unifa
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medium-sized, laurel leaf unifaces
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leaf bifaces, which also can be par
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surface of a nodule reduction flake
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in some cases, be thoroughly chippe
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core such as is used in the Middle
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The small stemmed biface type also
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domestic archaeological record at P
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and northern Belize regions. During
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Figure 5.9: Microcrystalline-quartz
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Figure 5.10: Unifacially-worked lau
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they had the same meaning and value
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At Piedras Negras biface-reduction
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The goal of reduction would be to p
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5.6.3: Notching Flakes: Indirect Pe
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Figure 5.13: Evidence for the reduc
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5.6.7: Resharpening, Rejuvenation,
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CHAPTER 6 TYPOLOGY OF OBSIDIAN ARTI
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Figure 6.1: Exhausted obsidian blad
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Exhausted cylindrical cores are fou
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Figure 6.2: Examples of possible pr
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face of the core. Clark and Bryant
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Figure 6.5: Percussion flakes remov
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Figure 6.7: Distal rejuvenation bla
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section, and then were prepared and
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Figure 6.9: Obsidian eccentrics tha
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Figure 6.11: Second-series pressure
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lade-core platforms at Piedras Negr
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Figure 6.13.1: Platform rejuvenatio
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termination was used as a platform
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Figure 6.16: Crested blade from Pie
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Figure 6.18: Distal rejuvenation fl
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this technique is on transforming t
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6.3.2: Some Implications of Single-
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differentiation in others. This is
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Figure 6.22: Cores notched by press
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Figure 6.24: Completely-bifaced fla
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specific types of debitage, only re
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for cylindrical cores. The edges of
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The debitage from the production of
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is understood to be the site core.
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Figure 7.2: Map of the acropolis at
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Figure 7.3: Map of Piedras Negras d
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inhabited up to the Kumche phase, a
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area of the city. PN23 also appears
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The third and final spatial groupin
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historical connection to previous i
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any other residential group at Pied
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Phase Cutting Edge to Mass Ratio Av
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An analysis of CE:M ratios and blad
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Site Op Phase Artifact Type Modific
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number of different ways. According
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It is true, however, that the major
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Site Operation Phase Area Non- prod
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Obsidian-Eccentric Types Yaxche Cha
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