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  2. Investigating Restricted Knowledge in Lithic Craft Traditions among the Pre-contact Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America

Investigating Restricted Knowledge in Lithic Craft Traditions among the Pre-contact Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America

Adam N. Rorabaugh 2017 © BAR Publishing
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Understanding the impacts of the emergence of hereditary social inequality in human societies is one of the fundamental questions in archaeology. This book is one case study examining the transitions in craft apprenticeship of formed lithic tools among the precontact Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest Coast as hereditary social inequality emerged. According to cultural transmission theory, the emergence of large plank house villages and hereditary social inequality would result in the restriction of craft knowledge, and was predicted to reduce the stylistic and fine scale metric variation of formed lithic tools. High resolution metric and stylistic analyses were performed, controlling for material quality, tool retouch and sample size effects. Stylistic variation in lithics and assemblage heterogeneity suggests that lithic craft knowledge became increasingly restricted through time, with the emergence of large sedentary populations.
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  • BAR pre-2020
  • BAR International Series pre-2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407344942 (ebook)
  • 9781407315836 (paperback)
BAR Number
  • S2863
Subject
  • North America
  • Hunter-Gatherers / Hunting
  • Landscape Archaeology
  • Lithics / Stone Tools
  • Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • List of Equations
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Evidence for the Emergence of Hereditary Social Inequality and Restricted Learning in the Salish Sea
  • 3. Hafted Chipped and Ground Stone Technologies on the Northwest Coast
  • 4. Cultural Transmission and the Material Record
  • 5. Hypotheses and Expectations
  • 6. Methodology and Sample
  • 7. Lithic Technological Organization
  • 8. Assemblage Stylistic Diversity and Metric Variation
  • 9. Inferring Cultural Transmission
  • 10. Discussion
  • 11. Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
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