Abstract
Quarry locales are often separate from where people lived. In such cases, toolstone procurement may require organized task groups to obtain the raw material and bring it to reduction areas or ultimately to use and then discard zones, rather than ad hoc opportunism. Patterning and cases that diverge from the expected are examined to better understand the relationship between places where populations use their tools and the locations where raw materials are found. In turn, by looking closely at these relationships, archaeologists may come to new conclusions about the technological systems within which tool making plays a key role. The articles that follow are dedicated to George Hamley Odell (1942-2011), who was to have been a discussant at a Society for American Archaeology (SAA) symposium on these topics presented April 19, 2012 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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