Replication and Classification of Small Size Lithic Debit Age
Leland W. Patterson, J. B. Sollberger · Plains Anthropologist · 1978
A summary of attributes of small lithic flakes produced in making bifaces by several force application methods is presented, based on experimental flint knapping. The usefullness of these attributes in classifying manufacturing techniques is discussed. It is shown that attributes commonly measured are not always sufficient to identify force application techniques. It is especially difficult to identify force application methods on archeological sites due to sampling problems and the possibility of a mixture of techniques.