Rocks are heavy: transport costs and Paleoarchaic quarry behavior in the Great Basin

2025-02-18 Classification：Archaeology Click()
Author：Beck, C; Taylor, AK; Jones, GT; Fadem, CM; Cook, CR; Millward, SA

Article Title：Rocks are heavy: transport costs and Paleoarchaic quarry behavior in the Great Basin

Abstract：
Central place foraging models are used to investigate assemblage variability at two Paleoarchaic (terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene) dacite quarries in the central and eastern Great Basin. Our analyses focus specifically on biface reduction and how varying degrees of reduction relate to the costs of transporting the resulting products upon departing the quarry. Our results suggest that when the distance to be traveled to a residential base is great, reduction will proceed further at the quarry than if the residential base is fairly close. Further, a residential site assemblage will consist of bifaces at later stages of reduction than its associated quarry. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.

Keywords: quarry; paleoarchaic; Great Basin; central place foraging; biface reduction; mobility; transport costs; resource utility; toolstone; dacite

DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4165(02)00007-7

Source：JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

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