Fluted point manufacture in eastern North America: An assessment of form and technology using traditional metrics and 3D digital morphometrics

World Archaeology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 101-122

  Gingerich, Joseph A M ^a,b   Sholts, Sabrina B ^a   Wärmländer, Sebastian K T S ^c   Stanford, Dennis ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3D scanning; digital morphometrics; flake scar patterns; flint knapping; Lithic technology; Paleoindians

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; COLONIZATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FLINT; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MORPHOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84899479215     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2014.892437     Document Type: Article

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