Early use of pressure flaking on lithic artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa.

V, Mourre; P, Villa; CS, Henshilwood

doi:10.1126/science.1195550

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Early use of pressure flaking on lithic artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa.

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Authors:

Mourre V

Villa P

Henshilwood CS

Abstract

Pressure flaking has been considered to be an Upper Paleolithic innovation dating to ~20,000 years ago (20 ka). Replication experiments show that pressure flaking best explains the morphology of lithic artifacts recovered from the ~75-ka Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. The tec...

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