Nodule analysis is designed to highlight the ways in which different lithic sources were utilized and incorporated into the stone tool industries of past societies. In 2008 and 2009, excavations in the Piceance Basin of Northwestern Colorado, an area with local chert and quartzite quarries, provided an opportunity to use a nodule analyses for a Section 106-driven project. The Aught-Six site lithic assemblage suggests that Archaic tool kits in Northwestern Colorado are likely to be heavily reliant on a variety of raw materials found across the region, though Bridger chert nodules were the primary objective pieces for the new tools during the basin house occupation. The results of the analyses not only highlight specific areas of projectile point production, but they also indicate that nodule analysis remains a powerful analytical method for understanding how raw materials are incorporated into the technological systems of semisedentary Archaic foragers.

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古代半久坐不动的觅食者和分析结核分析：科罗拉多州西北部的八六遗址

结核分析旨在突出不同石料来源的利用方式，并将其纳入过去社会的石器行业。2008 年和 2009 年，在科罗拉多州西北部的 Piceance 盆地（该地区拥有当地燧石和石英岩采石场）的挖掘工作提供了一个机会，可以在 106 节驱动的项目中使用结核分析。八月六号遗址石器组合表明，科罗拉多州西北部的古代工具包可能严重依赖该地区发现的各种原材料，尽管布里杰燧石结核是盆地房屋占领期间新工具的主要目标部件. 分析结果不仅突出了弹丸点产生的特定区域，