NDLI: Estimating Core Number in Assemblages: Core Movement and Mobility During the Holocene of the Fayum, Egypt

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Author	Phillipps, Rebecca S. Holdaway, Simon J.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The utility of the cortex ratio first developed by Dibble et al. (American Antiquity, 70(3), 545–560, 2005) and extended by Douglass et al. (American Antiquity, 73(3), 513–526, 2008) is examined in contexts where cores rather than flakes may be transported. The cortex ratio is used to demonstrate the movement of artifacts by quantifying missing surface area, typically where it is the flakes that were removed and the cores that were left behind. In such situations, the removal of flakes with small volumes will result in the removal of relatively large cortical surface areas resulting in a low cortex ratio. However, when it is the cores that were removed, assemblages will lose greater proportions of artifact volume relative to the loss of artifact surface area. Here, we propose methods to investigate the effects of high-volume artifact removal from archeological assemblages as a proxy for human movement in addition to the cortex ratio. We apply the methods to stone artifact assemblages from the Fayum, Egypt, where changes in mid-Holocene mobility are closely linked to food production.
Starting Page	520
Ending Page	540
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10725369
Journal	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737764
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-05-07
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Stone artifacts Mobility Cortex ratio Egypt Archaeology Anthropology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Archeology Archeology (arts and humanities)

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