Quantitative Variations In Flaked Stone Debitage
- 1 February 1976
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Plains Anthropologist
- Vol. 21 (71) , 57-61
- https://doi.org/10.1080/2052546.1976.11908781
Abstract
In an attempt to discern the quantitative parameters diagnostic of specific load applications (i.e.hard-and soft-hammer percussion and pressure flaking) used in flint knapping, approximately 1,500 experimentally produced flakes were analyzed. Load varieties were recorded during production, flakes were standardized as to plane size through graduated sieves, and weighed and measured for maximum thicknesses. Although the study indicates that hardand soft-hammer percussion do not yield significantly different debitage weights or thicknesses, pressure flakes can be differentiated from percussion spalls on the basis of these variables.Keywords
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