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Leaning Rock Site (41sm325) Lithics, Harry J. Shafer
Leaning Rock Site (41sm325) Lithics, Harry J. Shafer
Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State
The intent of the lithic analysis from the Leaning Rock site (41SM325) in Smith County, Texas, is to glean all possible information from the artifacts. Lithic studies have taken the back seat in materials analysis from sites and projects in East Texas where archaeologists focus primarily, if not exclusively, on formal tool analysis, if any analysis is done at all. Stone tools often had complex histories, and reading these histories can provide some useful, if not the only source for, insights into tool technologies, function, style, and social inferences. Stone tools were used in entirely different functional contexts than were …