Using metrology in early prehistoric stone tool research: Further work and a brief instrument comparison

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Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 294-303

  Evans, A A ^a   MacDonald, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

archaeology; LSCM; quantification; stone tools; surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DATA SETS; INSTRUMENT COMPARISON; KEY ELEMENTS; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LSCM; METROLOGICAL SYSTEM; PROCESS OF EVOLUTION; QUANTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; STONE TOOLS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

ALGORITHM; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT; METROLOGY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STONE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 80054720799     PISSN: 01610457     EISSN: 19328745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sca.20272     Document Type: Article

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