@article {9820,
	title = {Old Cuts and Scrapes: Composite Chipped Stone Knives on the Canadian Plateau},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {28},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {001-031},
	abstract = {<p>Existence of highly curated, hafted, composite chipped stone knives involving both bifacial blades and unifacial scrapers is postulated for the Canadian Plateau, and behavioral implications related to these tools are explored and addressed. Many researchers assume ad hoc that chipped stone, convex-edged, unifacial endscrapers\&$\#$39; are clear indices of hide working. Here, such formed unifaces are argued to have also functioned frequently and effectively for an important step in fish cleaning and processing. Composite knives made during the Nesikep Tradition (ca. 7,000 to 4,500 BP) may have been an important inclusion in most personal tool kits, and would have been designed to deal with a broad range of tasks, making them invaluable for groups practicing unanticipated opportunistic and immediate food consumption, and fairly high group mobility. Use during the much later Kamloops horizon (ca. 1,200 to 200 BP) likely reflects processing large numbers of salmon in preparation for both immediate and delayed (stored) consumption. The functional efficiency of a replicated Lehman Phase composite knife was subjectively assessed by experimentally cleaning/dressing several sockeye salmon. Recommendations for future research directions relating to composite knives are offered, as is a provisional general outline of appropriate methodological strategies to investigate these tools in greater depth.\&$\#$39;</p>},
	author = {Mike K. Rousseau}
}
