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Flake tool
About: Flake tool is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 37 publications have been published within this topic receiving 863 citations.
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1 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution and change in the Middle Paleolithic of Africa and the Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, and the use of space in the Late Middle Stone age of Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa.
Abstract: General Introduction.- On Naming Things.- Observations on Systematics in Paleolithic Archaeology.- Testing Retouched Flake Tool Standardization During the Middle Paleolithic.- Diversity of Lithic Production Systems During the Middle Paleolithic in France.- Trajectories of Change in the Middle Paleolithic of Italy.- Stasis and Change During the Crimean Middle Paleolithic.- Monospecific or Species-Dominated Faunal Assemblages During the Middle Paleolithic in Europe.- Middle Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Levant.- Housekeeping, Neandertal-Style.- The Middle Paleolithic of the Levant.- Middle Paleolithic Subsistence Ecology in the Mediterranean Region.- Projectile Technologies of the African MSA.- From Acheulean to Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya.- The Use of Space in the Late Middle Stone Age of Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa.- "Now You See it, Now You Don't"-Modern Human Behavior in the Middle Paleolithic.- Between Observations and Models.
349 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test whether bifacial cores are more efficient carriers of flake cutting edge than amorphous cores and find that bifaces do produce flakes with significantly higher edge-to-weight ratios than do amorphus cores, but more of the weight of Bifacial core is lost to waste during the flake production process.
Abstract: Many researchers assume that the greater flake tool production efficiency of bifacial versus amorphous cores helps explain the prevalence of bifacial core technology among mobile populations. This paper describes experiments that test whether bifacial cores are more efficient carriers of flake cutting edge than amorphous cores. The first experiment established a size threshold of flake cutting efficiency. The second experiment reduced ten bifacial and ten amorphous cores to exhaustion and calculated the amount of usable and total flake edge produced by each core type, excluding flakes beneath the size threshold. Results indicate that bifacial cores are not significantly more efficient producers of usable or total flake edge than amorphous cores. Bifaces do produce flakes with significantly higher edge-to-weight ratios than do amorphous cores, but more of the weight of bifacial cores is lost to waste during the flake production process. Flake production efficiency therefore does not explain the use of bifacial cores among mobile populations.
101 citations
TL;DR: It is proposed that the Flores pattern applies across island Southeast Asia: large-sized "core tool" assemblages are in fact a missing element of the small-sized flake-based reduction sequences found in many Pleistocene caves and rock-shelters.
89 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an experimental test of a method proposed by Dibble and Pelcin (1995) for reconstructing the original flake mass from striking platform dimensions is described. But, the results of this test indicate that while there is a correlation between flake masses and flake attributes for hard-hammer lithic production systems, using the specific variables identified by the Dibble-Pelcin (exterior platform angle and platform thickness) consistently underestimates original mass.
75 citations
TL;DR: The archaeology of Britain during the early Middle Pleistocene (MIS 19-12) is represented by a number of key sites across eastern and southern England, including Pakefield, Happisburgh 1, High Lodge, Warren Hill, Waverley Wood, Boxgrove, Kent's Cavern, and Westbury-sub-Mendip as mentioned in this paper.
46 citations
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