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Heat treatment as a universal technical solution for silcrete use? A comparison between silcrete from the Western Cape (South Africa) and the Kalahari (Botswana)

Heat treatment was one of the first transformative technologies in the southern African Middle Stone Age (MSA), with many studies in the Cape coastal zone of South Africa identifying it as an essential step in the preparation of silcrete prior to its use in stone tool manufacture. To date, however,...

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Autores principales: Schmidt, Patrick, Nash, David J., Coulson, Sheila, Göden, Matthias B., Awcock, Graeme J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5517054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28723941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181586