The Babine Archaeology Project began in 2010 and since then, many stone artifacts have been recovered. In 2014 and 2015, the project focused on excavations on Smokehouse Island (GiSp-001), on the Babine River. The focus of this thesis is an analysis of a sample of debitage recovered from Unit 8 excavated in 2015. The goal is to determine if differences are evident in how the inhabitants of Smokehouse Island reduced the different stone raw materials. Mass analysis, a modified version of the Sullivan and Rozen technique, and Magne’s scar count method were used to analyze the materials. Results suggest that core reduction is dominant for the two different raw material groups, though tool production is still present for both. Technological mixing impacts the analysis of the different materials.
