Hits and misses when throwing stones at mass analysis

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2788-2796

  Bradbury, Andrew P ^a   Carr, Philip J ^b  

^a Cultural Resource Analysts Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flake debris; Flintknapping experiments; Mass analysis; Multiple lines of evidence; Size grades

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PREHISTORIC;

EID: 70349967696     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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