Reaping the rewards: The potential of well designed methodology, a comment on Vardi et al. (Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 1716-1724) and Goodale et al. (Journal of Archaeological Science 37 (2010) 1192-1201)

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1901-1904

  Stemp, W James ^a   Evans, Adrian A ^b   Lerner, Harry J ^c  

^a KEENE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lithic use wear; Near East; Quantification; Sickle blades

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; METHODOLOGY; NEOLITHIC; TOOL USE; WEAR;

EID: 84860639928     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.04.015     Document Type: Article

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