Guest Lecture: Flaked Stone Tool Production in Ice Age America
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Colfax, WA 99111
USA
After learning how to make and use flaked stone tools to better understand observed artifacts, James Payne, Executive Director of the Fort Walla Walla Museum, undertook an investigation into tool production techniques refitting some of the 11,000 pieces of stone debris from a workshop in northern Maine, which revealed both a technology with parallels to the Upper Paleolithic of Europe and a caution on interpretations derived from experimental archaeology.
James was born and grew up in Ohio farm country where he developed a strong interest in the past. He obtained training in Anthropology and interdisciplinary studies at the Universities of Toledo, Maine and Michigan. He conducted archaeological research throughout North America and taught at Saginaw Valley State University and the University of Michigan. For the last two decades, he has worked as an administrator at Fort Walla Walla Museum.