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Simple production and social strategies: do they meet?
Problems in Eastern Fennoscandian quartz
assemblages
Lithic analysts aiming to understand the social aspects of vein quartz use
will encounter serious problems compared with those one has to cope with
self and it does not matter what kind of a research strategy one is following.
ous problems for studies of mobility and settlement patterns. In addition,
it means that individual knapping events cannot easily be distinguished at
are therefore not available in vein quartz studies. Admittedly, some types
of quartz, such as smoky quartz, are distinctive enough to be recognized in
analysis, but they are much less common in prehistoric assemblages.
Questions concerning raw material procurement strategies are not easy
to address, either. Vein quartz is a practically ubiquitous raw material in the
landscape and occurs both as rounded cobbles in moraine ridges, lake shores,
and so on, and as veins in the bedrock, from which it can be quarried with
relative ease (cf. Broadbent 1979; Manninen & Valtonen 2002).
vein quartz can be mistakenly interpreted as retouching (Siiriäinen 1981:8p;
Schäfer 1990:89; Lindgren 1998; Cornelissen 2003:13).
Leakšagoadejohka 3 site
in Utsjoki, Finnish Lapland,
showing radial and
bending fractures (Manninen
2003:Fig.11).
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