Lithic assemblages

Lithic assemblage The complete set of stone artifacts found at an archaeological site. 

Eerkens, J.W, Ferguson, J.R., Glascock, M.D., Skinner, C.E., Waechter, S.A. (2007) Reduction strategies and geochemical characterization of lithic assemblages a comparison of three case studies from western North America. American Antiquity, 72, 585-597. 

Ten obsidian artifacts each were also selected from two sites in northern Corsica. The Cardial Early Neolithic levels at Strette included over 1000 lithic artifacts, with over 11 % in obsidian the ten artifacts selected came from level XIV of Strette 1 (39, 40). The 24 obsidian artifacts excavated in level VI at Pietracorbara, however, comprised only about 6% of the lithic assemblage there (41). 

The modal compositions of the Oseberg Formation are typical of first-cycle lithic arenites. The detrital mineral assemblage is very uniform throughout the... 

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