USE beyond manufacture: Non-flint stone artifacts from fowlers gap, Australia

Lithic Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 94-111

  Holdaway, Simon ^a,b   Douglass, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Quartz; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928667220     PISSN: 01977261     EISSN: 20516185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2051618515Y.0000000003     Document Type: Article

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