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A Geometric Morphometric Assessment of Plan Shape in Bone and Stone Acheulean Bifaces from the Middle Pleistocene Site of Castel di Guido, Latium, Italy
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2010
New Perspectives on Old Stones
Flaked bone artifacts are a noteworthy component of some Early and Middle Paleolithic tool kits. Several Paleolithic sites with lithic assemblages attributable to the Acheulean Industrial Complex (Mode 2) have yielded bifacial bone artifacts. Many of these bone implements are similar to classic handaxes in plan shape. The arbitrary imposition of form represented by these bone bifaces suggests the deliberate application of certain operational concepts that originate from particular Acheulean
doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-6861-6_2
fatcat:ane6swag6fggbk47svnk27a4rq