Laser profilometry and length-scale analysis of stone tools: Second series experiment results

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Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 233-243

  James Stemp, W ^a   Childs, Ben E ^b   Vionnet, Samuel ^c  

^a KEENE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c Quantis   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

fractals; laser profilometry; length scale; microwear; stone tools

Indexed keywords

CONTACT MATERIAL; LASER PROFILOMETERS; LASER PROFILOMETRY; LENGTH SCALE; MEAN SQUARE; MEASUREMENT DATA; MICRO-WEAR; RELATIVE LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STONE TOOLS; TOOL SURFACES;

ELECTRIC CONTACTS; FRACTALS; PROFILOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EXPERIMENTS;

ARTICLE; LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOOL USE;

EID: 78349236211     PISSN: 01610457     EISSN: 19328745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sca.20200     Document Type: Article

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