National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Testing of Sites 41LT172 and 41LT354 in Luminant's Kosse Mine, Limestone, Texas Page: 85
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6. Site 41LT354
Table 13. Site 41LT354, Use-Wear Attributes of Utilized Flakes
Soft Medium-soft Medium-hard Hard
Activity Material Material Material Material Total
Cutting 36 60 3 0 99
Scraping 10 26 46 8 90
Sawing 0 0 11 0 11
Planing 2 5 3 0 10
Drilling 1 0 0 0 1
Total 49 91 63 8 211Wear patterns consistent with cutting are the most common and were observed 99 times across 92
specimens. Scraping was evidenced 90 times across 77 specimens, while sawing was evidenced 11
times on 11 specimens. Planing was evidenced 10 times on 9 specimens, and drilling was evidenced
1 time on 1 specimen. Chert is the most common material in the utilized flake assemblage, with 149
specimens. Metaquartzite was the next most common, with 10 specimens. There was 1 quartz
arenite and 1 silicified wood specimen.
There are 91 instances of patterned wear consistent with use on medium-soft materials present on
80 specimens. There are 63 instances on 50 specimens of patterned wear consistent with use on
medium-hard materials. There are 49 instances on 41 specimens of patterned wear consistent with
use on soft materials. There are only 8 instances on 6 specimens consistent with use on hard
materials.
Based on frequency of wear patterns consistent with different material types, the 41LT354 utilized
flake assemblage was used on a wide variety of materials. Artifacts used on medium-soft to soft
materials account for 66.4 percent of the utilized flake assemblage, suggesting that hide working
and plant processing were more common than wood working and bone working. A total of 11
utilized flakes exhibit signs of thermal alteration. This alteration appears to have been
unintentional in 9 cases.
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Cores
Eight lithic cores were recovered from site 41LT354. The basic attributes of these materials are
presented in Table 14. Raw material types represented by the core assemblage include chert (n =
4), metaquartzite (n = 2), and silicified wood (n = 2). Two cores were exhausted, while five were
categorized as pebbles and one as a cobble. Four have multidirectional negative scars, and the other
four are unidirectional. None showed any signs of thermal alteration, suggesting that if heat
treatment of lithic raw materials took place on-site, it was undertaken on flakes already removed
from cores.
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Atkins North America, Inc. National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Testing of Sites 41LT172 and 41LT354 in Luminant's Kosse Mine, Limestone, Texas, report, February 2012; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth839205/m1/94/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.