The Manufacture of Northern Fluted Points: A Production Sequence Hypothesis

PaleoAmerica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-180
Author(s):  
Heather L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Production Sequence ◽  
Fluted Points

A Workshop Site of Early Man in Dinwiddie County, Virginia

1951 ◽  
Vol 17 (1Part1) ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben C. Mccary
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Rare Type ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
Fluted Points

David I. Bushnell, Jr., first aroused wide interest in the fluted points found in Virginia. He accomplished this primarily by an article in the June 9, 1934 issue of the Literary Digest, in which he announced the discovery of “two Folsom points” in Virginia. This article and subsequent references to these two “points of recognized Folsom type” (Bushnell, 1935, pp. 35-6, 56) called special attention to the importance and possibilities of such finds in the East. In 1934, only one collector of Virginia projectile points, Arthur Robertson of Chase City, Virginia, could claim “five or more” of these fluted points (Wells, 1935, pp. 1, 14). However, the intense interest which Bushnell created stimulated a search in Virginia for this rare type of point, with the result that shortly after Bushnell's 1934 announcement, sporadic finds of fluted points having a resemblance to both the Folsom Fluted and the Clovis Fluted began to be noted in various parts of the State. Their occurrence seemed to indicate that there actually was a paleo-Indian in Virginia.

FLUTED POINTS AND OTHER BIFACIAL TOOLS

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Roosa ◽  
Christopher Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Fluted Points

Early Paleo-Indian Foragers of Midcontinental North America

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley T. Lepper
Keyword(s):  
Game Species ◽  
East Central ◽  
Appalachian Plateau ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
Functional Attributes ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Fluted Points ◽  
Subsistence Activities ◽  
Dense Concentration

A survey of private and public collections produced information on 410 fluted point yielding localities within a single county in east central Ohio. Analysis of techno-functional attributes of the fluted points resulted in the definition of four general settlement types including large and small workshop/occupations, chert processing loci, and food procurement/processing loci. The distribution of these loci in relation to various features of the local paleoenvironment suggests that Paleo-Indian bands were seasonally exploiting the diverse environments of the Appalachian Plateau. Subsistence activities appear to have focused primarily on dispersed, non-aggregated game species such as white-tailed deer. The dense concentration of fluted points here may simply reflect the high redundancy in the Paleo-Indian land use system in areas with limited loci of availability for critical chert resources.

Technological Analysis and Source Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from a Sun Pyramid Substructure Cache, Teotihuacan, Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua J. Kwoka ◽  
M. Steven Shackley
Keyword(s):  
Source Area ◽  
Energy Dispersive ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Production Sequence ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
Teotihuacan Mexico ◽  
Technological Analysis

The following report provides new data on a Sun Pyramid cache excavated by René Millon in 1959, including confirmation that the cache was associated with a substructure. A technological analysis illustrates the anthropomorphic eccentric production sequence, and indicates that the miniature projectile points were produced from debitage from multiple reduction technologies. All obsidian artifacts were attributed to the Otumba source area via energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF). In addition to providing data on the production of obsidian implements for ritual deposits, we suggest that the cache may be a representation of scaffold sacrifice.

Simultaneous stochastic optimization of production sequence and dynamic cut-off grades in an open pit mining operation

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 101634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amol Paithankar ◽  
Snehamoy Chatterjee ◽  
Ryan Goodfellow ◽  
Mohammad Waqar Ali Asad
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Optimization ◽  
Mining Operation ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Production Sequence

scholarly journals Origins and spread of fluted-point technology in the Canadian Ice-Free Corridor and eastern Beringia

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (16) ◽  
pp. 4116-4121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather L. Smith ◽  
Ted Goebel
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Evolutionary Patterns ◽  
Geometric Morphometric ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
Proximate Source ◽  
Fluted Points

Fluted projectile points have long been recognized as the archaeological signature of early humans dispersing throughout the Western Hemisphere; however, we still lack a clear understanding of their appearance in the interior “Ice-Free Corridor” of western Canada and eastern Beringia. To solve this problem, we conducted a geometric morphometric shape analysis and a phylogenetic analysis of technological traits on fluted points from the archaeological records of northern Alaska and Yukon, in combination with artifacts from further south in Canada, the Great Plains, and eastern United States to investigate the plausibility of historical relatedness and evolutionary patterns in the spread of fluted-point technology in the latest Pleistocene and earliest Holocene. Results link morphologies and technologies of Clovis, certain western Canadian, and northern fluted points, suggesting that fluting technology arrived in the Arctic from a proximate source in the interior Ice-Free Corridor and ultimately from the earliest populations in temperate North America, complementing new genomic models explaining the peopling of the Americas.

Epistemological Importance and Fluted Points: An Observation

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
Shawn D. Haley
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
Native North American ◽  
Fluted Points ◽  
Over Time

The earliest cultures of North America produced exquisitely made fluted projectile points. Over time, projectile points became progressively more crude in form and workmanship. A common explanation for this apparent regression is that native North American stone workers “lost the art of fine flint knapping.” This hypothesis is questioned and an alternative offered. It is suggested that regression had not occurred. Rather, there had been a shift in epistemological importance away from projectile points into more relevant areas for those more recent cultures. Points simply were no longer important to them.

scholarly journals ADEQUAÇÃO DO LAYOUT DE UMA FÁBRICA DE FERRAMENTAS FLORESTAIS BASEADO EM PARÂMETROS ERGONÔMICOS

FLORESTA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 515
Author(s):  
Pompeu Paes Guimarães ◽  
Nilton César Fiedler ◽  
Flavio Cipriano de Assis Carmo ◽  
José Tarcísio da Silva Oliveira ◽  
Luciano José Minette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Production Sequence ◽  
Development Pathway ◽  
Production Building ◽  
Physical Layout

Esta pesquisa avaliou os postos de trabalho em uma fábrica de produção de ferramentas florestais visando otimizar as condições ergonômicas e o layout do processo de produção baseado nos parâmetros ergonômicos e de produtividade. Para analisar o conforto térmico, foi utilizado o índice de bulbo úmido termômetro de globo (IBUTG); para medir a velocidade do vento, anemômetro; luxímetro para avaliar a quantidade de luz do galpão de produção; e decibelímetro, para coletar o ruído a que os trabalhadores estavam expostos. O posicionamento de todas as máquinas foi mensurado junto com o caminhamento no processo de produção, sendo realizado estudo de tempos, movimentos e de produtividade. De acordo com os resultados, a área das forjadoras 1 e 2 apresentou valores de IBUTG acima do limite permitido de 25 °C. A velocidade do vento em todas as atividades foi menor que 0,75 m/s e apenas a região do orvado, área de corte 1 e soldagem apresentaram níveis de iluminância acima do mínimo permitido (NR-15). Todas as atividades extrapolaram os níveis de ruído toleráveis para a atividade, exceto o envernizamento. Pela análise do layout, propõe-se uma nova disposição física, para reduzir os tempos improdutivos, melhorar as condições ergonômicas e facilitar a sequência de produção e escoamento dos produtos.Palavras-chave: Ergonomia; arranjo físico; produção de ferramentas. AbstractLayout adequacy of a forestry tool factory for ergonomic parameters. This research evaluated the work in a forestry tools factory in order to optimize ergonomic condition and layout of production process based on ergonomic parameters and productivity. Different methods had been used to analyze the factory environment as the Wet Bulb Globe Thermometer Index (WBGT), to analyze thermal comfort, the anemometer, to measure the wind speed, the lux meter, to assess the amount of light inside the production building, and decibel meter, to collect the workers exposure to noise. The placement of all the machines was measured along the development pathway of the production process, and studies of time, movements and productivity had been developed. According to the results, the area of forger 1 and 2 had values above the allowable WBGT limit of 25 °C. The wind speed in all activities was less than 0.75 m/s and only the region of orvado, welding and cutting area 1 presented illumination levels over the minimum allowed (NR-15). Noise levels extrapolated in all the activities but varnishing. As result, it proposes a new physical layout in order to reduce unproductive times, improve the ergonomic conditions, and facilitate production sequence as well as materials flow.Keywords: Ergonomics; physical arrangement; tool production.

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