Comparative morphology, dealing with the diversity of form and shape, and functional
morphology, the study of the relationship between the structure and the function of an …

Archaeologists generally agree that high-power computer technology constitutes the most
efficient venue for addressing many issues in archaeological research. Digital techniques …

For many years, intuition and common sense often guided the transference of patterning
ostensibly evident in experimental flintknapping results to interpretations of the …

Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years
to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago …

Lithic raw material differences are widely assumed to be a major determining factor of
differences in stone tool morphology seen across archaeological sites, but the security of …

This paper examines shape and size variability in Mousterian of Acheulian Tradition (MTA)
handaxes and compares the observed patterns to those in the Lower Paleolithic Acheulian …

Researchers have debated the existence of regional variation in Clovis points for over 60
years. Here, we report an attempt to resolve this argument using a large sample of Clovis …

We present here a newly developed software package named Artifact GeoMorph Toolbox 3-
D (AGMT3-D). It is intended to provide archaeologists with a simple and easy-to-use tool for …

Irrespective of the great number of archaeological sites from Southern Brazil presenting
bifacial stemmed points, not many detailed studies on their morphological evolution have …

Patterns of Palaeolithic variability between eastern Asia and western portions of the Old
World continue to engender controversial discussion. Most famously, debate has focused on …