Relative Importance of Modularity and Other Morphological Attributes on Different Types of Lithic Point Weapons: Assessing Functional Variations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  González José, Rolando ^a   Charlin, Judith ^b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARROW; ARTICLE; BLADE; CHILE; LITHIC POINT WEAPON; MORPHOMETRICS; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; SPEAR; STONE TOOL; VARIANCE; WEAPON;

HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; WEAPONS;

EID: 84867685134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048009     Document Type: Article

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