A few good blades: An experimental test on the productivity of blade cores from the Casa Montero Early Neolithic flint mine (Madrid, Spain)

Casa Montero flint mine (5337-5218 cal. BCE) was a production centre of blades that were probably distributed in a broad regional framework. Recent research on its lithic record has provided a method for the calculus of productivity for the blade cores based on the striking platform potential area....

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Main Author: Nuria Castañeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2016-09-01
Series:Journal of Lithic Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/1435