Microwear Analysis Stone Tools Portable Antiquities Topics Archaeology

Microwear Analysis Stone Tools Portable Antiquities Topics Archaeology

Microwear Analysis

Microscopic analysis method used to determine the function of flaked stone tools.

- A report by Cameron M. Smith that examines and quantifies the use-related modification observed on an assemblage of obsidian artifacts collected at the Harney Dune site located in southern Oregon.
- A research paper by Larry R. Kimball published in the McClung Museum Research Notes 1992. Features a description of the artifacts and a discussion of the utility and methodology of microwear analysis.
- Describes the methodology and quantification of microwear analysis. Hypertext version of 1989 book on quantification and computerisation of microwear analysis by Roger Grace
- Compiled by John Dockall.
- An Investigation of the Late-Paleoindian Component at Dust Cave by Angela Davis. Includes a microwear image gallery with examples of discrete types of damage resulting from different working actions.

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