Stone hammers, rough or pitted
Broad barbed flint spearheads
Flint dartheads
Flint scrapers
Flint awls
Chipped choppers
Spearthrower (atlatl) weights
Grooved stone axes (ground)
Ground stone celts
Chipped flint digging tools (hoes)
Small area settlement sites in the open
Rock shelters
Post holes in line
Necklaces and pendants
Plummets
Copper tools
Dog bones
Bone-awls
Whet- or abrading stones
Bannerstones (with cylindrical hole)
Flexed burials in Medial and Terminal subculture
Projectile weapon
Hunting of deer and small mammals and collecting edible plants, clams,
etc.
Technologies: flint-chipping, pecking, grinding and polishing of
stone, grinding and polishing bone, boring bone and stone with
flint drills and with tube, sand and water, making string
(from hides and [?] plant-fibers), weaving (?), basket-making
(?)
Dog the only domesticated animal
Marriage
Family
Extended family or lineage
“Independent” local groups
Windbreaks or flimsy shelters
Family hunting territory
Rotating hamlet
Non-political tribe
“Family-type” social control
Puberty rites (Initiation ceremonies)
Tribal elders and temporary headmen
Insignia possibly as social acceptance of personal achievement, or as
family crest
Belief in friendly and ancestral spirits, in mana and in revelation by
vision or dream
Sacred tradition (“mythology”)
The shaman—intercessor with spirits and healer of sick—magic medicines
Fertility ceremonies—to insure abundant game and to perpetuate sacred
traditions
Recreational activities and creative arts practiced chiefly in
connection with religious ceremonies
Funeral rites for all deceased tribal members
Socially important persons on death given special care and preparation
for burial, and possibly buried in a specially selected place
Mourning period for dead
Food and grave offerings left especially for important dead