Pressure Blades and Total Cutting Edge: An Experiment in Lithic Technology Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Pressure techniques were used to remove 83 blades from a preformed obsidian core weighing 820 grams, yielding 17.32 meters of acute cutting edge. The blades represented 91 percent of the original weight (2.1 centimeters of acute cutting edge per gram of original material), thus demonstrating the efficiency of the pressure-blade techniques for the production of acute cutting edges.

publication date

  • February 11, 1972

has restriction

  • closed

Date in CU Experts

  • November 18, 2013 7:50 AM

Full Author List

  • Sheets PD; Muto GR

author count

  • 2

Other Profiles

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0036-8075

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1095-9203

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 632

end page

  • 634

volume

  • 175

issue

  • 4022