ABSTRACT
Interpretation General distribution of lithic materials used in artifact manufacture at Tutu Dr O’Hara, gemologist, who examined the lithic artifacts from Tutu, provided a list of available lithic raw material sources at the Tutu site, on St Thomas, and on neighboring islands. The list is by no means exhaustive, and the presence of lithic resources is not necessarily an assurance that they were exploited by the Tutu inhabitants. In many cases, also, it is not possible to determine whether raw material was procured and brought to the site for artifact manufacture or whether finished objects were obtained in trade or exchange. However, on-site production of certain lithic items may be deduced from (1) the presence of artifacts and their raw lithic materials at the Tutu site and (2) the presence of artifacts in process of manufacture and related debitage.
