The Leavitt Site: A Parkhill Phase Paleo-Indian Occupation in Central Michigan

Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Foreword, by Henry T. Wright
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction and Narrative of Investigation
	Introduction
	Great Lakes Paleo-Indian Systematics
	Site Setting
	History of Investigation
	Overview of Report
Chapter 2. The Environmental Context of Occupation at Leavitt
	Introduction
	The Paleoenvironment, 11,000-10,000 B.P.
	Chert Sources
Chapter 3. Site Stratigraphy
	Feature Discovery
	Feature 4
	Dating Feature 4
	Discussion
Chapter 4. Core and Flake Debris
	Cores
	Flake Debris Analysis
	Comparative Analysis
	Interpretations of Flake Debris
	Discussion
Chapter 5. Unifaces
	Introduction
	Uniface Attributes
	Bifacial Reduction
	Nodular or Tabular Core Reduction
	Miscellaneous Artifacts
	Unifaces of Other Material
	Conjoinable Fragments
	Assemblage Characteristics
	Evidence for Hafting
	Form and Function of End Scrapers
	Conclusion
Chapter 6. Bifaces
	Introduction
	The Biface Assemblage
	Tool Descriptions
	Small Bifaces
	Broken Bifaces
	Later-Period Diagnostic Bifaces
	The Biface Reduction Trajectory
	Continuous Variation in Fluted Bifaces
	Conclusion
Chapter 7. Assemblage Formation Process
	Introduction
	Discard Processes
	Implications of Discard Processes
	Analysis
	Conclusion
Chapter 8. Spatial Analysis
	Spatial Analysis in Forager Sites
	Spatial Analysis in Great Lakes Paleo-Indian Sites
	Spatial Distributions and Structure at Leavitt
	Conclusion
Chapter 9. Conclusion
	Introduction
	Cultural Approaches in Paleo-Indian Studies
	Scale of the Paleo-Indian Record
	Scales of Data Recovery
	An Organizational Approach
	Conclusion
Appendix Archaeobotanical Remains from the Leavitt Site / Kathryn Egan
Bibliography