Stone heat treatment in the Early Mesolithic of southwestern Germany: Interpretation and identification.

The Early Mesolithic of southwestern Germany, the so-called Beuronian (9600-7100 BC), is a period of important transformations in the way people lived, in their subsistence and in the stone tools they produced. One of the perhaps most spectacular re-inventions of that time is heat treatment of stone...

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Main Authors: Patrick Schmidt, Océane Spinelli Sanchez, Claus-Joachim Kind
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5718480?pdf=render