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DOI: 10.1086/202078
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A History of Flint-Knapping Experimentation, 1838-1976 [and Comments and Reply]

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“…This design often includes tracing the actions associated with different stages in these processes such as, for example, preparing complex core exploitation surfaces. Such approaches have established the complexity of the network of variables which influence flake morphology and have been influential in lithic analysis since the inception of interests in sequences of stone tool production (Buffon and Compte 1778 and see references in Johnson et al 1978). The application of replicative experimental approaches proliferated in the 1950s-1960s (Bordes 1947;Bordes 1950;Bordes and Crabtree 1969;Crabtree 1966;Crabtree 1967;Crabtree 1968;Crabtree 1970;Crabtree 1972), and they still constitute the predominant way of holistically reconstructing past hominin technological decision making (Ahler 1989;Amick 1989;Amick et al 1988;Andrefsky 1986;Carr and Bradbury 2001;Eren et al 2016;Shen and Wang 2000).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This design often includes tracing the actions associated with different stages in these processes such as, for example, preparing complex core exploitation surfaces. Such approaches have established the complexity of the network of variables which influence flake morphology and have been influential in lithic analysis since the inception of interests in sequences of stone tool production (Buffon and Compte 1778 and see references in Johnson et al 1978). The application of replicative experimental approaches proliferated in the 1950s-1960s (Bordes 1947;Bordes 1950;Bordes and Crabtree 1969;Crabtree 1966;Crabtree 1967;Crabtree 1968;Crabtree 1970;Crabtree 1972), and they still constitute the predominant way of holistically reconstructing past hominin technological decision making (Ahler 1989;Amick 1989;Amick et al 1988;Andrefsky 1986;Carr and Bradbury 2001;Eren et al 2016;Shen and Wang 2000).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This review highlights the important strategic role that stone artifact replication experiments must continue to play in further developing a scientific approach to archaeology. (Johnson 1978). The lengthy article appeared in Current Anthropology, a journal whose format allows for companion commentaries by experts in a particular field.…”
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“…Descriptions of each of the different geometric approximations used in this study 34 Lithic experimentation has a long history and has become an increasingly common and powerfully applied approach to archaeology. Accordingly, experimental knapping is the subject of several syntheses that attempt to summarise its history and theoretical background (Bradley 1977;Carr and Bradbury 2010;Flenniken 1984;Johnson 1978;Lamdin-Whymark 2009;Lerner 2010;Nami 2010;Olausson 2010). The four case studies contained in this thesis are therefore not designed to encompass the entire range of lithic experimentation.…”
Section: List Of Figuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other reviews of the history and theory of knapping studies are available (Bradley 1977;Carr and Bradbury 2010;Flenniken 1984;Lamdin-Whymark 2009;Lerner 2010;Nami 2010;Olausson 2010), the most comprehensive of which addresses the formative years of knapping in lithic technology (Johnson 1978). Apparent in these summaries is that there is an exponential upward trend in the complexity of scientific applications to lithic technology as lithic analysts attempt to keep pace with the emergence of new techniques within and outside the archaeological discipline.…”
Section: History Of Knapping Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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