A network-based method for the analysis of use and function in stone tool kits: Implications for Late Prehistoric settlement patterning in northeast Mississippi

<p>A network-based method is developed for analyzing use in stone tool assemblages, where 'use' denotes the tasks for which chipped edges are suitable. Modeling chipped edges as nodes, use-wear and retouch as edge traversals, use-life trajectories of chipped edges as inter-connecting...

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Main Author: Ervin, Jason Nathaniel
Other Authors: Darcy Shane Miller
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: MSSTATE 2018
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Online Access:http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-05072018-121655/