"Lithic Exploitation and Usewear Analysis" by Elspeth Hayes, Richard Fullagar et al.
Lithic artefacts span millions of years in the archaeological record and provide evidence for how tools were made and used at various analytical scales – from determining local tasks to understanding subsistence economies, behavioural adaptations, origins of human culture, and evolution. The procurement and production of stone tools are central to many interpretations of past human behaviours in the landscape. There are many analytical techniques available for geochemical characterizations with differing precision and accuracy. Information about the movement of stone material, often in combi...
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