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A biface and blade core efficiency experiment: implications for Early Paleoindian technological organization by Jennings, Thomas A., Pevny, Charlotte D., Dickens, William A.

“…Early Paleoindians often are described as highly mobile hunter–gatherers who employed lithic technologies designed to minimize stone transport costs. We…”
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Reviewing the Role of Experimentation in Reconstructing Paleoamerican Lithic Technologies by Jennings, Thomas A., Smallwood, Ashley M., Pevny, Charlotte D.

“…Experimental archaeology is a key component of research for reconstructing past human behaviors, and this approach has been a cornerstone for interpreting the…”
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Expressions of ritual in the Paleoindian record of the Eastern Woodlands: Exploring the uniqueness of the Dalton cemetery at Sloan, Arkansas by Smallwood, Ashley M., Jennings, Thomas A., Pevny, Charlotte D.

“…•At Sloan, the dead were buried with their active tool kits that carried utility.•Large Dalton points buried at Sloan represent symbolic investments of great…”
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Projectile? Knife? Perforator? Using actualistic experiments to build models for identifying microscopic usewear traces on Dalton points from the Brand site, Arkansas, North America by Smallwood, Ashley M., Pevny, Charlotte D., Jennings, Thomas A., Morrow, Juliet E.

“…At the end of the Pleistocene, Dalton hunter-gatherers substantially altered their technology by crafting points with serrated, beveled, and tapered blade…”
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Paleoindian Projectile-Point Diversity in the American Southeast: Evidence for the Mosaic Evolution of Point Design by Smallwood, Ashley M., Jennings, Thomas A., Pevny, Charlotte D., Anderson, David G.

“…Paleoindian projectile points occur in high numbers in the American Southeast, and when compared to other regions of the East, the Southeast has the greatest…”
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Mississippian craft production in the Yazoo Basin: Thin-section analysis of a Mississippian structure floor on the summit of Mound D at the Carson site by Mehta, Jayur Madhusudan, Abbott, David, Pevny, Charlotte D.

“…In the Mississippian Southeast, little is known about the economy of how craft goods were produced. Archeologists do understand to a certain degree the…”
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