The Piney Branch site (District of Columbia, U.S.A.) and the significance of the quarry-refuse model for the interpretation of lithics sites
In the 1870s the amateur archaeologist Dr Charles Abbott discovered roughly-flaked bifacial artefacts that he called “paleoliths” near Trenton, New Jersey, which he claimed were artefact types similar to Lower Palaeolithic handaxes being found in western Europe at that time. This interpretation gave...
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University of Edinburgh
2020-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Lithic Studies |
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Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/2986 |