Lithic Curation is the systematic practice of preserving, maintaining, and selectively reusing stone tools or tool fragments over time, distinguished from other tool management strategies by its emphasis on the intentional extension of tool utility through repair, resharpening, and curated retention within a technological repertoire.
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Technological Efficiency and Tool Curation
Douglas B. Bamforth · American Antiquity · 1986 · 621 citations
Stone tools: theoretical insights into human prehistory
Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 207 citations
Paleoindian: geoarchaeology of the southern High Plains
Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 143 citations
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
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5 publications
123 citations
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
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5 publications
483 citations
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Beijing, China
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9 publications
167 citations
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
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9 publications
406 citations
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
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10 publications
180 citations
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Tarragona, Spain
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Wuhan University
Wuhan, China
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- Quaternary International
19 publications · 525 citations
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- Journal of Archaeological Science
4 publications · 212 citations
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- Comptes Rendus Palevol
4 publications · 80 citations
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- Journal of Human Evolution
JHE · 4 publications · 247 citations
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- Lithic Technology
3 publications · 113 citations
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