Fragmentation resistant measures of chipped stone abundance and size: Results of an experimental investigation of the impact of cattle trampling on surface chipped stone scatters

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 57, Issue 224, 2012, Pages 353-365

  Douglass, Matthew ^a   Wandsnider, LuAnn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithic technology; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879519596     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/pan.2012.025     Document Type: Article

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