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Prehistory in North Carolina: Identifying Volcanogenic Rock from the Carolina Terrane

Archaeologist in a field with shovel and reflective vest; 2 projectile points

Shane Petersen is an archaeologist with the Environmental Analysis Unit of the NCDOT. Shane will speak about his ongoing research on one of North Carolina’s most important prehistoric resources. For decades, the significance of metavolcanic stone in the technology and economies of not only the prehistoric inhabitants of North Carolina, but also the East Coast of North America has been recognized and incorporated into constructed narratives of the past.  Concomitantly, large numbers of lithic sites distributed throughout the North Carolina Piedmont, particularly those that do not include index artifacts, have vexed researchers, because of the variety of lithic types represented and the disposition of those deposits.  Recently developed identification logic trees for determining the types of volcanogenic rocks in archaeological contexts have become an important tool in organizing the analysis of stone artifacts at sites in North Carolina.  Additionally, this tool is expected to provide increasingly valuable perspective on adaptive behavior choices in prehistoric lithic economies.

If you are not able to attend this lecture in person, it will be live-streamed and available afterward on YouTube.

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When:
Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 3:30pm
Online Access:
https://youtu.be/Mpa6x59KpOQ
Organizer:
Office of State Archaeology Lecture Series

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North Carolina Office of State Archaeology

109 E. Jones Street 
Raleigh
, N.C. 27601

4619 Mail Service Center 
Raleigh
, N.C. 27699-4619

(919) 814-6550

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The North Carolina Office of State Archaeology is a program of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Division of Historical Resources, within the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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