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Quantifying Flake Scar Patterning on Cores Using 3D Recording Techniques

Clarkson, Chris, Vinicius, Lucio and Lahr, Marta (2006-01-01) Quantifying Flake Scar Patterning on Cores Using 3D Recording Techniques. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33 1: 132-142.

 
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Author(s) Clarkson, Chris
Vinicius, Lucio
Lahr, Marta
Title Quantifying Flake Scar Patterning on Cores Using 3D Recording Techniques
Journal name Journal of Archaeological Science
Publication date 2006-01-01
Volume number 33
Issue number 1
ISSN 0305-4403
Start page 132
End page 142
Total pages 11
Editor(s) K. W. Butzer
Place of publication USA
Publisher Elsevier
Collection year 2006
Language eng
Subject 220000 Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts - General
C1
780108 Behavioural and cognitive sciences
Abstract A key feature of stone artefact morphology is the arrangement and patterning of negative flake scars left on flakes and cores. Scar patterning is often treated as a rough guide to identifying methods of core preparation and reduction and usually forms a key component of lithic typologies and other systems of analysis. However, scar patterns are often complex and difficult to capture using traditional measurement or classificatory techniques, particularly where flakes are thick and irregular, or where cores are flaked on many sides from a number of platforms. Three-dimensional analysis of flake scars is now more feasible using digital 3D surface scanning technologies, or using three-dimensional measurement tools such as the Microscribe-3DX which is now widely used in biological geometric morphometric studies more generally [D.C. Adams, F.J. Rohlf, D.E. Slice, Ital. J. Zool. 71 (2004) 5e16; F.J. Rohlf, L.F. Marcus, Trends Ecol. Evol. 8 (1993) 129e132. [1,34]]. This paper develops a mathematical formula for describing scar patterning using vectors calculated from the start and end points of flake scars recorded in three dimensions.
Keyword(s) flake scar patterning
vector algebra
Index of Scar Patterning
Additional Notes Originally published as Clarkson, Chris and Vinicius, Lucio and Lahr, Marta (2006) Quantifying flake scar patterning on cores using 3D recording techniques. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(1):132-142. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2005.07.007 Copyright 2006 Academic Press. All rights reserved. Single copies only may be downloaded and printed for a user's personal research and study.
 
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