Two examples of pressure blade production with a lever: Recent research from the Southern Caucasus (Armenia) and Northern Mesopotamia (Syria, Iraq)

The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making: From Origin to Modern Experimentation

Volumn 9781461420033, Issue , 2012, Pages 181-198

  Chabot, Jacques ^a   Pelegrin, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Allée de L'Université   (France)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2003-3_6     Document Type: Chapter

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