The Mechanics of Use-Breakage of Stone Tools: Some Testable Hypotheses

1981/01/01 by George H. Odell · 5 citations
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction #Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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Abstract

An attempt at interpreting untypical modifications of flint arrowheads: an experimental

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