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Experiments to explore the Paleoindian flake-core technology in southern Patagonia
Final and archaeological considerations
The experiments performed with these cores, particularly the piece described
in this paper, was useful to understand diverse aspects of bifacial prepared
dian technology from both regional and continental perspectives. They are
as follows:
From a regional perspective
Experimental
from diverse kinds of cores, some of them by using some sort of partial
core after each SFD. In this sense, its reduction emerges as a dynamic proc
result (cf. Kuhn 1995).
core preparation strategies is required, especially how to prepare the surface
and striking platforms. By knowing the method and from a simple tabular
it is easy to maximize the raw material by extracting a good number of useful
stone tools. The goal is to obtain a tool of predetermined shape with very
little retouch.
Regarding core preparations, there is a broad range of possibilities. How
ever, in the Patagonian case, one of the probabilities might be a core similar
to the piece presented here and other variations in outline, which might be
ovoid, circular, semicircular, quadrangular and other varieties (cf. Anderson
Archaeological
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