Heating of flint debitage from Upper Palaeolithic contexts at Manot Cave, Israel: Changes in atomic organization due to heating using infrared spectroscopy

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 54, Issue , 2015, Pages 45-53

  Weiner, Steve ^a   Brumfeld, Vlad ^a   Marder, Ofer ^b   Barzilai, Omry ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chert heating; Flint heating; Flint knapping; Infrared spectroscopy; Manot Cave

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CAVE; CHERT; FLINT; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HEATING; OUTCROP; PALEOLITHIC;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84917705622     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.11.023     Document Type: Article

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