Tools underfoot: Human trampling as an agent of lithic artifact edge modification

American Antiquity

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 108-129

  McBrearty, Sally ^a   Bishop, Laura ^b   Plummer, Thomas ^c   Dewar, Robert ^a   Conard, Nicholas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Institut für Ur und Frügeschichte   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.2307/2694779     Document Type: Article

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