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Wissen, Dominique van (2020)

Crafting Pastime. A pilot study into domestic and craft activities through testing the potential use of flakes of mostly sedimentary rocks as tools at the Late Ceramic Age site of El Carril, northern Dominican Republic (AD 900-1450)

Master thesis | Archaeology (MA/MSc)

At the site of El Carril flaked materials from mostly sedimentary rocks have been excavated and examined to get a better understanding of domestic and craft activities that were carried out there by the indigenous peoples in AD 900-1450. This research has been carried out as a pilot study wherein the combination of starch grain-use wear approach has for the first time been applied to flaked materials from sedimentary rocks. With the combination of the starch grain-use wear approach it had been able to identify the domestic and craft activities carried out . At least two domestic and craft activities carried out in El Carril. First the ad hoc crafting of the producing flaked materials for the domestic or craft activity required and secondly the processing of yams and beans.

Caribbean Archaeology

Domestic activities

Craft activities

Sedimentary rocks

starch grain analysis

use wear analysis

El Carril

Author

Wissen, Dominique van

Faculty

Faculty of Archaeology

Specialisation

Archaeology and Heritage of Indigenous America

Supervisors

Hofman, C.L.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en