Big Smoky Valley, By Robert L. Kelly Summary

The author of the text Robert L. Kelly starts with how he was doing his first archaeological survey and it took place in Big Smoky Valley, which is in Nevada, United States. During his first archaeological survey the crew leader was Robert Bettinger. It was hot summer of 1973 and that was the first time and the leader of the Robert Kelly's team asked if he saw ‘it’. Of course, by ‘it’ he meant the stone remains on the ground, or under the ground. That was exactly that time when the author of this text, Robert Kelly decided for himself that he should become an archaeologist. When he first saw the ‘it’ on the ground it seemed to him something like brilliant , or something glittering, but he did not think that it might be a stone. There were
And also how archaeologist should know whether it is a tool or not. Where and how these tools were used and for what.
Also got some information about how to determine whether the stone was shaped by people , or by nature. We should be able to know if that stone was shaped by humans in the past, or if it is like this by nature. Also there are written the ways of how the scientists can determine the stone, before sending it to the professional experiment.
There is a place called Pedra Furada in Brazil, there archaeologists find tens of thousands different stones and although they all look like tools, only some of them were actually tools made by human and the rest was shaped by the mother nature. Although we know the ways how to identify the stone tools, it still is a complicated research, for we cannot say anything exactly. Stone tool analysis is inevitably complicated for tools, cores and flakes could be changed into something completely different at any stage their use - lives. Not always we can say that a certain tool was exactly what we call