Why Levallois? A morphometric comparison of experimental 'preferential' Levallois flakes versus debitage flakes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Eren, Metin I ^a   Lycett, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL HOMININ; MATERIALS TESTING; MORPHOMETRICS; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HOMINID; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KITCHEN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; TOOL USE; VALIDATION STUDY; WEAPON;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COOKING AND EATING UTENSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEANDERTHALS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; WEAPONS;

EID: 84856112566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029273     Document Type: Article

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