Ontogenetic scaling and lithic systematics: method and application

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1447-1457

  Ioviţǎ, Radu ^a  

^a Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Elliptical Fourier analysis; Lithics; Ontogenetic scaling; Resharpening; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENETICS; TRAJECTORY; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

EID: 67349226101     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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