Identification of Cultural Site Formation Processes through Microdebitage
Analysis
Kathleen L, Hull
American Antiquity, Vol. 52, No. 4. (Oct., 1987), pp. 772-783.
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IDENTIFICATION OF CULTURAL SITE FORMATION
PROCESSES THROUGH MICRODEBITAGE ANALYSIS
Kathleen L. Hull
Methods for recognition of site formation processes are slowly being developed. Ethoarchaeotogcal dara on
refuse disposal suggest that comparison of the distributton of large and small objects across site may be an
Interpretive method because size scftena factor in determining whether an objet becomes primary or secondary
refs. To test this in the fil, I carried out microdebtage analysis on sil samples from a sone crcl sit n the
‘Northern Plains. Comparison of the microdebitage and macroflake disinbutions indicates the wily of micro=