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Knapping Skill Acquisition

Knapping Skill Acquisition is a cognitive and motor learning process within experimental archaeology that involves the systematic development of procedural competence in producing stone tools through hands-on practice, observation, and feedback, distinguishing it from theoretical or technological analyses of lithic production.

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Skill and Cognition in Stone Tool Production

Dietrich Stout · Current Anthropology · 2002 · 435 citations

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Late Pliocene hominid knapping skills: The case of Lokalalei 2C, West Turkana, Kenya

Anne Delagnes, Helen M. Roche · Journal of Human Evolution · 2005 · 369 citations

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Skills and learning difficulties involved in stone knapping: The case of stone‐bead knapping in Khambhat, India

Valentine Roux, Blandine Bril, Gilles Dietrich · World Archaeology · 1995 · 180 citations

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Introduction: Archaeological Approaches to Lithic Production Skill and Craft Learning

Douglas B. Bamforth, Nyree Finlay · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · 2008 · 153 citations

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The role of expertise in tool use: Skill differences in functional action adaptations to task constraints.

Blandine Bril, Robert Rein, Tetsushi Nonaka et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · 2010 · 147 citations

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Authors

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  1. BB
    Blandine Bril

    École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France

    5 publications · 495 citations

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  2. DS
    Dietrich Stout

    Emory University, United States

    4 publications · 664 citations

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  3. JP
    Justin Pargeter

    University of Johannesburg, South Africa

    4 publications · 264 citations

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  4. TN
    Tetsushi Nonaka

    Kobe University, Japan

    3 publications · 246 citations

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  5. RR
    Robert Rein

    Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, United States

    3 publications · 246 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    306 citations

  2. University of Kent

    Canterbury, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    340 citations

  3. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    229 citations

  4. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social

    Tarragona, Spain

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    648 citations

  5. Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Tarragona, Spain

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    561 citations

  6. Emory University

    Atlanta, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    390 citations

  7. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    275 citations

  8. New York University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    106 citations

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  1. Lithic Technology

    5 publications · 245 citations

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  2. Scientific Reports

    3 publications · 154 citations

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  3. Quaternary International

    3 publications · 112 citations

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  4. Journal of Human Evolution

    JHE · 3 publications · 579 citations

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  5. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

    2 publications · 172 citations

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