Use-Wear on Later Stone Age Microliths from Laga Oda, Haraghi, Ethiopia and Possible Functional Interpretations
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
- Vol. 13 (1) , 101-110
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00672707809511633
Abstract
Excavations in later Stone Age deposits at Laga Oda rock-shelter near Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, yielded a quantity of microliths which retained signs of edge damage. Experiments were conducted in an attempt to replicate the patterns of edge damage observed on the prehistoric material. Several uses are proposed to which the microliths may have been put: some evidently served as knife-blades, suggesting the cutting of grass.Keywords
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