A Little Mystery, Mythology, and Romance: How the “Pigmy Flint” Got Its Name
The term “pigmy flint” was coined in 1895 and frequently used to describe small flint implements, many of them microliths, in British and Irish archaeology during the earliest decades of the 20th century. It was briefly adopted in France over a decade later to describe the same tools, translated as...
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De Gruyter
2022-04-01
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| Series: | Open Archaeology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0100 |