We examined lithic artifacts from the late Neanderthal site Sesselfelsgrotte (Bavaria,
Germany) in order to evaluate the possibility of fire use and intentional flint heat treatment …

The objective of this study was to determine if visible reflectance spectroscopy and
quantitative colorimetry represent viable approaches to classifying the heat treatment state …

Many have interpreted symbolic material culture in the deep past as evidencing the origins
sophisticated, modern cognition. Scholars from across the behavioural and cognitive …

Archaeologists often use data and quantitative statistical methods to evaluate their ideas. In
this chapter, the authors provide a simple explanation of Bayesian statistics. They compare it …

The lithic assemblage from the well‐known site of Lugo di Grezzana (Italy) attributable to the
Fiorano group (5,300–4,900 BC cal) is analysed to shed new insights on the early Neolithic …

In Europe, intentional heat treatment of silica rocks to improve their knapping quality
appeared for the first time during the Solutrean (ca 25.5–23 ka cal BP). The recognition of …

Silcrete is widely used for stone tool manufacture throughout various parts of the world and
is sometimes heat-treated to improve aking quality. Properly sourcing this raw material can …

Archaeological arguments usually fall in the “to be or not to be” discussions, where several
suppositions are raised, not being possible to prove that some hypotheses are more …