Practice Makes Projectiles: Genesse Biface Technology in Southern Ontario

• Main Author: Malleau, Kaitlyn C.M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2015
• Subjects: Great Lakes archaeology; broad point; Genesee; projectile points; communities of practice; diagnostic impact fractures; Archaeological Anthropology; Davidson; Sadler; First Nations
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3309; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/etd/article/4811/viewcontent/K._Malleau_Practice_Makes_Projectiles___Post_Submission_Corrections__2__FINAL_COPY.pdf; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/etd/article/4811/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/Appendix_E___SPSS_Outputs.docx

In this study I investigate the lithic technology practice communities of what is now southwestern Ontario between 3800 and 3400 B.P., the latter part of the period dubbed “the Broad Point Archaic.” I seek to propose historical processes by which Genesee bifaces might have entered Ontario, and how t...