Editing Lithic analysis (section)

===Reduction===
Lithic reduction itself can be studied to help illuminate the settlement and movement patterns of hunter-gatherer groups by following the idea of Central Place Foraging Models. The Model dictates that the farther from a resource a group inhabits, the more processing of that resource will occur in the field before being transported to the primary habitation. Testing of this model has indicated it is indeed applicable to lithic assemblages, and can help to identify assemblages created by highly mobile hunter-gatherer societies in prehistory.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Beck|first1=Charlotte|last2=Taylor|first2=Amanda K.|last3=Jones|first3=George T.|last4=Fadem|first4=Cynthia M.|last5=Cook|first5=Caitlyn R.|last6=Millward|first6=Sara A.|title=Rocks are heavy: transport costs and Paleoarchaic quarry behavior in the Great Basin|journal=Journal of Anthropological Archaeology|date=2002|volume=21|issue=4|pages=481–507|doi=10.1016/s0278-4165(02)00007-7}}</ref>