Pipe Manufacture on the Plains and Experimental Archaeology: Not Just Blowing Smoke

• Autores: Sarah N. Chandlee, Collen A. Bell, Timothy Lambert
• Localización: Lithic technology, ISSN 0197-7261, Vol. 39, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 122-128
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Several types of smoking pipes have been manufactured and used by native North American peoples throughout later prehistoric and historic times. Although substantial information exists on the styles of these pipes, very little is known about their methods of manufacture. This paper examines one particular style of pipe, the Florence Pipe, associated with the proto-Wichita Great Bend peoples. A block of Minnesota pipestone was manufactured into a pipe using stone tools replicated after those found in the Robb Collection from central Kansas. This archaeological assemblage was proposed to have been used in the manufacture of Florence pipes, which was confirmed through use-wear analysis of the collection. The steps and labor requirements for the creation of Florence pipes are illuminated in this paper in a way that cannot be accomplished through archaeological analysis and use-wear analysis alone.