Lithic and QuarryResearch along the Eastern Seaboard
	Society for American Archaeology Symposium140 Saturday Afternoon, April 8, 2000 Philadephia Marriott, Room 301, 1-3pm
Organizers:	Philip LaPorta CUNY Graduate Center Philip_C_LaPorta at compuserve.com
	Gregory Bondar Department of Anthropology, Penn State University  ghb1 at psu.edu
For many millennia, lithic materials dominated assemblagesof human material culture. Yet, quarries and quarry-related sites, amongthe most important prehistoric phenomena, remain among the least understood.Fortunately, in recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in interestfocused on quarries and quarry technologies, raw material analysis, andpure geological studies pertaining to lithic raw materials. This sessionwill feature an inter-regional sharing and synthesis of expertise and experienceranging from analytic geochemical characterization of quarry material inNew England, to excavations of quarry-related reduction sites in Virginiaand North Carolina.
Participants:
1:00 PM	Elizabeth Crowell & Philip LaPorta Revising Holmes’ Quarries: A NewLook at the Quartzites from Piney Branch
1:15 PM	Kurt Carr & Robert Winters Preliminary Testing at the SnaggyRidge, South Mountain Metarhyolite Quarries
1:30 PM	Michael Barber & George Tolley Beyond Quarrying: Lithic QuarryActivities in Quartzite, Jasper, and Rhyolite
1:45 PM	David Sanger & Henry Berry IV Why didn’t they use the good stuff?:Lithic Selection During the Archaic in Central Maine
2:00 PM	Gregory Bondar Prehistoric Distribution and Useof Metarhyolites in Eastern North America
2:15 PM	Lawrence Abbott, Kenneth Robinson, MicheleVacca, & Nathen Mountjoy The Uwharries Lithics Conference:A Collective Approach to Defining Raw Material Variability Within the Carolina Slate Belt of North and South Carolina
2:30 PM	Linda Sohl & Philip LaPorta Geological Constraints on QuarryDevelopment in the Central Appalachians
2:45 PM	Philip LaPorta--Discussant