Abstract
The ways that stone tool production and use were organized among the Maya and in the southeastern United States were not much different from one another, despite obvious differences in cultural complexity. In both regions, the bulk of the stone tools produced during the periods of sedentary, centralized control were flakes derived from ad hoc cores. One of the most vexing problems has been the role of craft specialization and the degree to which it was controlled by the elite among the Maya. An analysis of obsidian artifacts from the Classic site of Nohmul and a review of other data on stone tool manufacture lead to the conclusion that specialized production of elite paraphernalia may have been centrally controlled, while the manufacture of subsistence items was based on direct, consumer-producer relationships. A general lesson derived from looking at the Maya from the Southeast is the need to be careful about the way that the presence of hieroglyphs influences our reading of the lithic record.
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Johnson, J.K. (1996). Lithic Analysis and Questions of Cultural Complexity. In: Odell, G.H. (eds) Stone Tools. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0173-6_7
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