Quantitative functional analysis of late glacial projectile points from Northern Europe

Lithics

Volumn , Issue 33, 2012, Pages 40-55

  Dev, S ^a   Riede, F ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arched backed points; Flip Test; Function; Late Glacial; Southern Scandinavia; Symmetry; Tanged points

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893915012     PISSN: 02627817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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