Exploring Retouch on bifaces: Unpacking production, resharpening, and hammer type

Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use, and Curation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 86-105

  Wilson, Jennifer ^a   Andrefsky, William ^a  

^a EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84887481953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511499661.005     Document Type: Chapter

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