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This study of lithic artifacts from the Halaf site of Fistikli Höyük, located in Southeastern Turkey, is part of a larger body of scholarly work on Late Neolithic village cultures in the Middle East. My work expands on existing scholarship and provides new understandings of the …

The goal of this dissertation is to identify and reconstruct activity areas in Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1200 BCE) temples and sanctuaries in the southern Levant by analyzing the ground stone artifacts found in them. Chapter 1 reviews the history of research of Middle…

In the New England Maritimes region, and especially New Hampshire, small lithic sites or scatters represent the most prevalent Paleoamerican site type identified on the landscape in the course of cultural resource management (CRM) and research activities. Correspondingly, distri…

A paucity of stratified, open-air Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) sites has long been an issue for Great Basin researchers. Most Paleoindian sites are near-surface lithic scatters that lack subsistence residues, perishable technology, and materials that can be radiocarbon dated.…

This study examines almost 5000 lithic artifacts from three rockshelters in the Belize, part of the Maya Lowlands. These sites bear evidence of human occupation throughout the last 14,000 years, a period over which I assess change in four lithic traits: 1) cortex, or the weather…