Researchers who analyze stone tools and their production debris have made significant
progress in understanding the relationship between stone tools and human organizational …

For many years, intuition and common sense often guided the transference of patterning
ostensibly evident in experimental flintknap** results to interpretations of the …

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from
Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple …

Stone tools are the least familiar objects that archaeologists recover from their excavations,
and predictably, they struggle to understand them. Eastern Africa alone boasts a 3.4 million …

A new core reduction index is presented, calculated as the ratio of flake scar number to 3D
surface area (SDI). The index is tested experimentally on five types of core (blade, discoid …

A century of research has led to the recognition of multiple levels of technological variability
in the Levantine Middle Paleolithic (MP) that cannot be resolved through single-cause …

The relationship between artifact manufacture, use, and discard in the Developed Oldowan
is complex. Here we use digital-image-analysis techniques to investigate the intensity of …

The relative amount of retouch on stone tools is central to many archaeological studies
linking stone tool assemblages to broader issues of human social and economic land-use …

Identifying reduction dynamics in prehistoric retouched stone tools is important for
understanding technological trends, as well as site function, raw material management and …

Resharpening has long played a confusing role in the history of research on lithic variability.
In this chapter, I argue that, far from confounding issues of variability, resharpening can be …