Despite its worldwide use as a stone tool raw material, quartz is known to be a difficult
material for archaeologists. The main reason for this is the tendency of quartz flakes to …

Prehistoric quartz assemblages have always posed a special problem for archaeologists.
Due to its brittle nature, quartz is hard to understand within lithic classification systems that …

Microscopic remains of plants, hairs, blood, bone, and sinew have been detected on Stone
Age implements as evidence of the ways the tools were used. Together with use-wear …

Este trabajo se propone principalmente comparar resultados tafonómicos de varios casos
de estudio de conjuntos líticos arqueológicos de cuarzo del área serrana del centro de …

Archaeological research in northern Finland has identified a Mesolithic inland occupation
extending back to 8500–8000 cal. BC Until recently adjacent areas of interior north Norway …

En los contextos arqueológicos ubicados en las Sierras Pampeanas Australes de Argentina,
el cuarzo es el material lítico más utilizado para producir artefactos mediante talla. Se ha …

Aer its development in Uppsala in the early 1990's, quartz fracture analysis has mainly been
applied and discussed in terms of predictability, fragment selection and fragment use …

The Báišduottar–Paistunturi project studies the prehistory and history as well as the building
and hunting traditions, the cultural and linguistic character and local folklore of the …

Tässä tutkimuksessa kuvataan ja selitetään Rääkkylän Vihi 1: n piikivi-ja kvartsiaineistojen
välisiä eroja. Tutkimuksen lähtökohtana on teoreettisen kirjallisuuden ja kokeellisen …

This paper presents results of surveys carried out in the Paistunturi highland area in Utsjoki,
Northern Finnish Lapland and discusses the Mesolithic use of the area. The lithic …