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A Further Note on Lithic Heat-treating in Northwestern California
Thomas R. Hester, The University of Texas at San Antonio
ABSTRACT:
There are two areas of Gould's paper which
I believe call for further comment. I find to be
of most interest Gould's statement on p. 143:
The possibility thus exists that cobbles of
agate and jasper were collected by Indians
from the beaches and placed in fires,
perhaps solely for the purpose of lithic
reduction or perhaps in connection with
stone-boiling of water and acorn gruel....
No careful effort was made by the Indians
to control the rate at which the agate and
jasper cobbles were heated and cooled, so
many cobbles shattered into useless fragments....
With this, and following statements, Gould
sets forth a "hypothetical lithic reduction sequence"
for the Point St. George site.
KEYWORDS:
ethnology, archaeology, ethnohistory, native peoples
SUGGESTED CITATION:
Thomas R. Hester
(1977)
"A Further Note on Lithic Heat-treating in Northwestern California",
The Journal of California Anthropology:
Vol. 4:
No. 1,
Article 17.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucmercedlibrary/jca/vol4/iss1/art17
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