A Comparative Evaluation of Four Sampling Techniques and of the Reliability of Microdebitage As A Cultural Indicator in Regional Surveys
- 16 November 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Plains Anthropologist
- Vol. 28 (102) , 273-281
- https://doi.org/10.1080/2052546.1983.11909173
Abstract
Site discovery in areas under vegetative cover or where extensive soil deposition has taken place remains a subject of interest to field archaeologists and theoreticians alike. Four techniques of locating subsurface cultural materials were tested in a comparative framework during the summer of 1981 in the Spruce Woods Provincial Park in south-central Manitoba. The techniques were selected to recover macrodebitage (materials > 2 mm) and microbeditage (materials < 2 mm and > 0.5 mm). The results indicate that success of a given technique is strongly related to artifact density and postdepositional stability of the soil matrix.Keywords
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