Flake debris and flintknapping experimentation

Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology: Examining Technology through Production and Use

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 71-91

  Carr, Philip J ^a   Bradbury, Andrew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Cultural Resource Analysts Inc   (United States)

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