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Unpacking Production, Resharpening and Hammer Type
Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation, pp.86-105
Cambridge University Press
2008
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/5979
Abstract
Measuring retouch amounts on stone tools has been helpful for understanding human organizational strategies. Multiple retouch indices geared toward assessing retouch amounts on flake tools and unifaces have been developed, but few have been developed to evaluate retouch exclusively for bifaces. For this study, a retouch index was developed and evaluated on an experimental assemblage of bifaces. It is shown that reduction activities on bifaces may create extensive amounts of retouch that are contingent upon a number of factors from both the production and resharpening events that must be taken into consideration before understanding a biface's life history.
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- Title
- Unpacking Production, Resharpening and Hammer Type
- Creators
- William Andrefsky (Author)
- Publication Details
- Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation, pp.86-105
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Identifiers
- 99900501583001842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter