When to retouch, haft, or discard? modeling optimal use/maintenance schedules in lithic tool use

Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 117-138

  Clarkson, Chris ^a   Haslam, Michael ^b   Harris, Clair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84930944306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139207775.011     Document Type: Chapter

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