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Lost and found twice: Discussion of an early post-glacial single-edged tanged point from Brodgar on Orkney, Scotland

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2016
Over the last few decades it has been shown that Scotland was settled – or at least occasionally visited – during the late Upper Palaeolithic period. The finds include diagnostic artefacts of Hamburgian, Federmesser and Ahrensburgian typology, but since ...
Torben Bjarke Ballin   +1 more
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Book review: Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast: Problems, Solutions, and Interpretations

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2015
This volume represents the outgrowth of practical and theoretical research in lithic analysis in the southeastern United States. Although the papers are regionally specific, the examples and methods used provide ample reason for lithic analysts and ...
John Edward Dockall
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Event review: Introduction to Paleoamerican Lithic Technology at the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School, Rimrock Draw Rockshelter, Oregon, U.S.A.

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2014
Introduction to Paleoamerican Lithic Technology at the University of Oregon Archaeological Field School.
Patrick O'Grady, Michael F. Rondeau
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Lithic Transport Patterns, Tool Curation Behavior, and Group Range Estimates: A Model-Based Exploration

open access: yesJournal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2021
The distances that prehistoric hunter-gatherers transported lithic artifacts are often used to estimate how far groups moved across the landscape. Changes in the scales of stone tool transport, likewise, are frequently attributed to changes in group ...
Andrew White
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Mesolithic projectile variability along the southern North Sea basin (NW Europe) : hunter-gatherer responses to repeated climate change at the beginning of the Holocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper investigates how former hunter-gatherers living along the southern North Sea coast in NW Europe adapted to long-term and short-term climatic and environmental changes at the beginning of the Holocene.
Crombé, Philippe
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A new approach to measure reduction intensity on cores and tools on cobbles: the Volumetric Reconstruction Method

open access: yes, 2020
Knowing to what extent lithic cores have been reduced through knapping is an important step toward understanding the technological variability of lithic assemblages and disentangling the formation processes of archaeological assemblages.
Cueva-Temprana, A.   +4 more
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Time, memory and alterity in prehistoric lithic technology: Synthesis and perspectives of the French technogenetic approach

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2022
The technogenetic approach in the field of prehistoric lithic technology studies originated in the late 1980s. Traditional approaches, such as typology and production technology, have tended to approach prehistoric lithic objects through their socio ...
Louis De Weyer   +4 more
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The chipped stone assemblage from the Early Chalcolithic settlement at Isaiia – Balta Popii.

open access: yesMateriale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2017
The paper presents, in detail, the investigations on the chipped stone assemblage discovered, during archaeological excavations, in the early Chalcolithic settlement at Isaiia - Balta Popii.
Vornicu, D.
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Event review: Seminário Nacional de Tecnologia Lítica, Goiânia, Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2017
Between 5 and 9 October of 2016 the Seminário Nacional de Tecnologia Lítica (National Seminar of Lithic Technology) took place on the campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, Brazil.
Marcos Paulo de Melo Ramos
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Cache and Carry: lithic technology and Mesolithic mobility

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2009
Using chipped stone data derived from the analyses of trans-Pennine Mesolithic assemblages and Clark's (1954) Star Carr assemblage, this article will examine the influence of lithic technology within the mobility strategies of the Mesolithic hunter ...
Paul R. Preston
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