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A Dataset Describing the Manufacturing of Stone Tools Over 3 Million Years

open access: yesJournal of Open Archaeology Data, 2023
This dataset is the product of an attempt to summarize the complexity and variability of tool-making sequences spanning the past 3 million years of hominin evolution.
Jonathan Paige, Charles Perreault
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From Implement to Outcrop: a model for identifying implement source rock at outcrop

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2009
Traditionally, the sourcing of prehistoric stone tools in Britain has been done most successfully by comparing the petrological and geochemical characteristics of individual stone tools with rock and debitage from known prehistoric quarry sites and stone
Amy Davis, Vin Davis, Mik Markham
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The stone-to-metal transition reflected in the Iron Age copper production sites of Timna Valley, Israel.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Metalwork was a major technological innovation that displaced stone-tool technologies and transformed human society and the environment. However, our understanding of these processes remains partial.
Ron Shimelmitz, Erez Ben-Yosef
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New Mesolithic Sites of the Lower Volga Region

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023
The paper publishes materials of the new Mesolithic sites in the Lower Volga region. The research relevance is due to the fact that this period is less studied than the others.
Tatiana Yu. Grechkina   +2 more
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Function Follows Form: Assessing the Functionality of Shells and Greenstone Shell Effigies as Formative Period Mesoamerican Textile Fabrication Tools, Part 1: Tagelus plebeius Atlantic Stout Razor Clam Shells

open access: yesEXARC Journal, 2022
Although the importance of textiles in Mesoamerica from the Classic period (AD 250-900) onward is well-recognised, until recently little research or exploration of earlier Mesoamerican textile production has been conducted. This paucity of scholarship is
Billie J. A. Follensbee
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Stone tools in the economic activity of the population of the Late Bronze Age in the forest-steppe zone of the Tobol river basin

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2017
The article presents the results of a complex analysis of stone tools from the sites of the Late Bronze Age in the forest-steppe zone of the Tobol river basin. The new data were obtained due to using petrographic, typological, traceological methods. They
Kostomarova Yu.V.
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Chronology of Kama Neolithic culture

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2017
The concept of the Kama Neolithic culture was proposed by Otto Bader, but lacked ra­diocarbon dates in the 20th century. Now, we have more than 50 radiocarbon dates that can be at­tributed to the Kama Neolithic culture.
Evgenia Leonidovna Lychagina   +1 more
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Ground stone tools from the copper production site Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2020
Archaeological research at Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman, conducted by the University of Tübingen, revealed a large Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BCE) site.
Stephanie Döpper
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Material Perspectives: Stone Tool Use and Material Culture in Papua New Guinea

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2003
Flaked stone tools are synonymous with prehistory to the extent that it is arguable that without these, the discipline would not exist. Yet we know relatively little about how people used them and what role they played within the material cultures of ...
Karen Hardy, Paul Sillitoe
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Stone Tools in the High Molise Mountains (Italy): A first Report

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2021
In the last decades, several researches focused on the inland areas of Molise Region (Central-Southern Italy) to investigate the occupation and exploitation of this environment during Pleistocene and Holocene.
Vittorio Mironti   +3 more
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