INDIANA ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 11 Number 1 2016 Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology ( DHPA )

Hovey Lake and Ries-Hasting are late prehistoric Caborn-Welborn phase archaeological sites located in southwestern Indiana, along the Ohio River. Hovey Lake is a large village, and RiesHasting is a small hamlet. Both have been investigated with surface survey and small-scale excavations by researchers from Indiana University and other institutions. To understand Caborn-Welborn tool use and production, the lithic assemblages from these sites were systematically compared. Lithic artifacts include initial and subsequent manufacturing forms, as well as complete and fragmentary implements for cultivating, woodworking, scraping, perforating, and hunting. Characteristics of size, worked-edge shape, and presence of cortex were recorded for each manufacturing form and implement. A sample of lithic debitage from each site was observed for production stage and evidence of subsequent use as expedient tools. Chert types were also identified for manufacturing forms, implements, and debitage. Statistical analyses of artifact and chert types illustrate how chert was acquired and processed, how tools were produced and utilized at each site, and the ways in which the tool kits vary between the sites.