A term to describe when detached pieces or flakes are discarded without being used as tools or
modified into tools ✔✔ Debitage
A term that is one of the most common types of objective pieces, having two sides that meet to
form a single edge circumscribing the artifact, evidence of previous flake removals ✔✔ Biface
A subtractive process, beginning with an objective piece modified by systematically removing
different sized pieces ✔✔ Lithic technology
what do you call a tool that is made requiring little effort, and with lots of effort ✔✔ little effort:
expedient manufactured tools
Lots effort: curated tools
two purpose of stone artifact classification ✔✔ to identify diagnostic markers indicators of
prehistoric cultures
To identify functional or behavioural indicators of those cultures
identifying a single attribute of stone artifact at any time ✔✔ Monothetic approach
Identifying more than a single attribute of stone artifact at any time. Combining attributes is
more important ✔✔ polythetic approach
, A type of approach that begins by recognizing each individual as belonging to a type by itself,
then gradually combined with similar objects to form larger groups ✔✔ Agglomerative
approach
A type of approach that begins by recognizing the entire population. From a bigger group
dividing into smaller groups ✔✔ divisive approach
A type of typology that emphasize that an artifact's form does not necessarily match its
assumed function ✔✔ Functional typology
a type of typology that suggests there is no reflection of function or chronology of stone tools
✔✔ Morphological typology
One of the most transformative and enduring technologies in human history ✔✔ pottery
what has the use of pottery led to changes in ✔✔ Mobility and settlement patterns, health and
population size, status and symbolic elaboration
In archaeology, ceramics generally refers to ________ ✔✔ cooking and serving utensils, objects
manufactured of clay
term for low-fired, unverified object and cooking vessels ✔✔ Pottery
Type of pottery that is generally not covered with glaze and fired at low temperatures. "cooked
earth" ✔✔ Terracotta
An approach into the study of pottery utilizes the concept of Chaine operatoire.