@article {9816,
	title = {A Geospatial Analysis of Toolstone Acquisition and Use: A Preliminary Investigation of Material Quality and Access Over 4,000 Years in the Salish Sea},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {38},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {371-393},
	abstract = {<p>The importance of resource acquisition on the Northwest Coast has received increasing attention in the development of models of social inequality. Moving the discussion beyond faunal and plant resources, we propose that toolstone may also be viewed as a critical resource tied to daily practices impacted by resource territoriality. The limited distribution of high quality lithic materials, in addition to heavy retouch and reuse in formed tools, may reflect an increasingly territorialized or restricted resource use through time. A material quality index (MQI) is used to assess toolstone from 16 sites in the Salish Sea over the past 4,000 years. Material quality data are then compared to measures of tool curation, the degree of artifact retouch and reuse. The data suggest that control over resources plays an indirect role in the patterning of utilized toolstone and the degree of retouch of formed chipped and ground stone tools in the region.</p>},
	author = {Adam N. Rorabaugh and Caitlyn Y. McNabb}
}
