Abstract

There is currently no consensus as to how lithic analyses should be undertaken and what role they can play in interpreting the archaeological record. By employing both Sullivan and Rozen's (1985) 'interpretation free' approach to debitage analysis along with a stage reduction approach, I suggest that it is indeed possible to conduct a satisfactory lithic analysis, and that information about exchange, subsistence and settlement patterns can be obtained from this. I examine the tools and debitage from the Flying Snake site (AjGx-153) in Milton, Ontario to confirm that the site belongs to the Ontario Small Point Archaic phase (ca. 3500 - 3000 B.P.), as well as to suggest how the site fits into the Late Archaic in Ontario.