Atomic force microscopy of microwear traces on Mousterian tools from Myshtylagty Lagat (Weasel Cave), Russia

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Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 304-315

  Faulks, Nathan R ^a   Kimball, Larry R ^a   Hidjrati, Nazim ^b   Coffey, Tonya S ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH OSSETIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

atomic force microscope; microwear; palaeolithic stone tool function; scanning probe

Indexed keywords

AFM; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; HOMININS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MICRO-WEAR; PALAEOLITHIC STONE TOOL FUNCTION; QUALITATIVE PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SCANNING PROBE; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; TECHNOLOGY USE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BONE; CAVES;

EQUIPMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BONE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEAT; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; MICROWEAR; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY; WOOD;

EID: 80054731377     PISSN: 01610457     EISSN: 19328745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sca.20273     Document Type: Article

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