ABSTRACT

Excavations at Crawford Bank in Crooked Tree, Belize, exposed a lithic deposit with no associated ceramics. The deposit primarily consists of chipped chert and chalcedony tools and debitage, as well as a small number of worked slate fragments. Most of the chert likely sources to the Northern Belize Chert-bearing Zone (NBCZ). The recovery of two Archaic period formal tools – a Lowe point and a constricted uniface/trimmed macroblade – suggests a pre-Maya occupation. Use-wear analysis of both tools and debitage demonstrates a wide range of uses with a focus on wood and hard contact materials. The use-wear patterns demonstrate a heavy reliance on ad hoc/expedient technology for the completion of different tasks involving wood by preceramic peoples. The Crawford Bank site likely represents one or more short-term, task-orientated preceramic occupation(s) for the extraction and use of the available resources of the local wetland environment, most notably logwood.

摘要

伯利兹弯曲树（Crooked Tree）的克劳福德银行（Crawford Bank）的挖掘工作暴露了一块没有相关陶瓷的石料矿床。该矿床主要包括切碎的石和玉髓工具，借方以及少量的板岩碎片。大部分的cher石可能来自北伯利兹的t土带（NBCZ）。恢复了两个古时代的正式工具– Lowe点和狭窄的单面/修剪的大刀–暗示了玛雅人之前的占领。对工具和扣具的使用磨损分析表明了广泛的用途，重点是木材和硬质接触材料。穿用模式显示出对临时性的严重依赖/方便技术，用于由陶瓷人完成涉及木材的各种任务。克劳福德银行的工地可能代表着一个或多个短期的，任务导向的陶器职业，用于开采和使用当地湿地环境的可用资源，尤其是原木。