GeoarchaeologyVolume 23, Issue 3 p. 417-418 Book Review Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis (Second Edition). William Andrefsky, Jr., 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xxiv + 301 pp., $90.00 (hardcover), $39.99 (paper) Boyce N. Driskell, Boyce N. Driskell Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996Search for more papers by this author Boyce N. Driskell, Boyce N. Driskell Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996Search for more papers by this author First published: 18 April 2008 https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20222Citations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume23, Issue3May/June 2008Pages 417-418 RelatedInformation

Practicing Archaeology: A Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology. THOMAS W. NEUMAN and ROBERT M. SANFORD. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA, 2001. 295 pp., biblio., 2 appendices. $78.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7591-0094-2. Reviewed by Boyce N. Driskell For the past two summers, I have offered an archaeological field school dedicated to the subject of practicing archaeology; this volume has served as the textbook. According to the authors, Practicing Archaeology is a volume that means to inform the reader about what is involved in doing professional with particular attention given to those things that normally are not [sic] taught in a university setting but that are [sic] expected to be known by the student when entering private or government practice (p. 4). Thus, after an introductory chapter that presents a background to practicing they take the reader through a chapter devoted to the legal basis of the practice, followed by a chapter on proposals and contracts. The latter will likely be quite helpful to the prospective or newly practicing archaeologist, who rarely gets much background in college courses on the business of archaeology. Other chapters take the reader through the Phase I, II, and III process. The final two chapters treat laboratory processing, analysis, and reporting. Before discussing other aspects of the book, I must express a bit of dismay as to why the authors and AltaMira Press have published two books that share most of their content. Both have 2001 publishing dates and neither refers to the other nor professes to be an update or expansion of the other. In fact, in the Preface of the other book, Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction (reviewed in 2003 by David Brose in Southeastern Archaeology 22 [1]: 112-13), the reader is informed that the book gives some sense of what a person needs to know-in addition to the standard classroom, field, and laboratory courses-to archaeology after he or she gets out of college. This seems to be about the same goal as articulated for the volume reviewed here. Perhaps the authors intended to make Practicing Archaeology more useful as a textbook by organizing the book's sections with hierarchical section numbers and a introduction to each chapter that reads like a student study guide. Comparisons will also show that Practicing Archaeology offers expanded discussion of proposals and contracts with an extra chapter (chapter 3) devoted to the subject. Chapter 8 is also a fuller discussion of laboratory processing and analysis than found in the other book. Finally, the appendices are expanded in this version. Appendix A includes a photocopy of federal regulations as published in the Federal Register. This is useful but can become dated, which of course the authors recognize and they provide references elsewhere to websites where updated federal laws are published. Appendix B, titled Basic Training, presents a discussion of training for the practicing archaeologist that is divided into auricular, field, and laboratory topics. While not agreeing necessarily in all particulars with their list of didactic and experiential credentials for practicing I applaud Neumann and Sanford for going on the record in this very critical area of concern by today's practicing archaeologists. There is no glossary, as is found in Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction, but there is an index which seems to be fairly comprehensive. Chapter 1, a brief history of extra-academic and professional archaeology, is the least successful discussion in the book. …

Dust Cave (1Lu496) is a habitation site in a karstic vestibule in the middle Tennessee River Valley of Northern Alabama. The cave, periodically occupied over 7,000 years, contains well-preserved bone and botanical materials and exhibits microstratigraphy and intact occupation surfaces. The chronostratigraphic framework for Dust Cave is based on 43 14C dates, temporally diagnostic artifacts, and detailed geoarchaeological analysis. In a broad sense, five cultural components are defined and designated: Quad/Beaver Lake/Dalton (10,650–9200 cal B.C.), Early Side-Notched (10,000–9000 cal B.C.), Kirk Stemmed (8200–5800 cal B.C.), Eva/Morrow Mountain (6400 to 4000 cal B.C.), and Benton (4500–3600 cal B.C.). Microstratigraphic and artifact analyses indicate that the primary differences in the deposits over time relate to intensity of activity and spatial organization with regard to changing conditions in the cave, not to the types of activities. Geomorphic transformations influenced the timing of occupation at Dust Cave, especially the initial occupation. The chronostratigraphy provides a framework for assessing the stratigraphic separation of Dalton and Early Side-Notched materials, the shift in technology from blades to bifacial tools, and the context of detailed flora and fauna evidence. These remains provide unique insights into forager adaptations in the Midsouth from the end of the Pleistocene through the first half of the Holocene.

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Paleoindian subsistence economy has traditionally been viewed as a focal, hunting adaptation emphasizing the exploitation of large game. In the Eastern Woodlands of North America, such inferences are often based on analogies to kill sites in the western United States, on models of Paleoindian settlement systems which emphasize nomadic mobility, and on assumptions regarding the function of highly formalized Paleoindian chipped stone tool kits. Recent research on Late Paleoindian hunter-gatherers at Dust Cave suggests a more generalized subsistence strategy was in place by at least 10,500 B.P. Preliminary analyses using faunal and botanical remains, coupled with microwear analysis of chipped stone tools, indicate that the inhabitants at the site exploited a wide variety of plants and animals, including nuts, hackberries, waterfowl, fish, and small mammals.