caa a22 4500 463255011 CHVBK 20180405153352.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10816-007-9042-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10816-007-9042-4 Wilson Lucy Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, 100 Tucker Park Road, P.O. Box 5050, E2L 4L5, Saint John, N.B., Canada aut Understanding Prehistoric Lithic Raw Material Selection: Application of a Gravity Model [Elektronische Daten] [Lucy Wilson] Provenance studies can tell us which sources of lithic raw material were used in the past, but can they tell us why? After all, many factors can have entered into a person's choice to use one source rather than another. Those factors can be grouped into two categories, the geologic/geographic characteristics of the source itself (quality, abundance, size of pieces, etc.), and the human factors (direction of travel, time available, social restrictions, etc.). This paper demonstrates how the geologic/geographic characteristics can be quantified and calculated together to give one value, the attractiveness of the source, which can then be used in a gravity model approach to predict which sources ‘should' have been used more than others. Deviations from the predicted pattern point to situations where the human factors were of greater or lesser importance. The values are also used to delineate geographical areas within which particular sources would be likely to be used (‘areas of influence'), which gives us a useful new way of understanding the landscape within which the prehistoric group lived. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Gravity models nationallicence Lithic procurement nationallicence Palaeolithic nationallicence Raw materials nationallicence Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 14/4(2007-12-01), 388-411 1072-5369 14:4<388 2007 14 10816 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-007-9042-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-007-9042-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wilson Lucy Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick in Saint John, 100 Tucker Park Road, P.O. Box 5050, E2L 4L5, Saint John, N.B., Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 14/4(2007-12-01), 388-411 1072-5369 14:4<388 2007 14 10816 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer