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Microlith Technology

Microlith Technology is a lithic technological system characterized by the production and utilization of small, geometrically shaped stone tools typically mounted in composite weapons or implements, distinguishing it from other stone tool technologies through its emphasis on miniaturization, standardized manufacture, and functional integration into composite tool forms.

20

Publications

890

Citations

68

Authors

44

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Microlithic Technology

Parents

Publications

20

Small Things Remembered: Origins of Early Microlithic Industries in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Stanley H. Ambrose · Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association · 2002 · 221 citations

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Design and performance of microlith implemented projectiles during the Middle and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Levant: experimental and archaeological evidence

Alla Yaroshevich, Daniel Kaufman, Dmitri Nuzhnyy et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science · 2009 · 166 citations · Full text

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Big debates over little tools: ongoing disputes over microliths on three continents

Peter Hiscock, Chris Clarkson, Alex Mackay · World Archaeology · 2011 · 85 citations

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Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka

Oshan Wedage, Andrea Picin, James Blinkhorn et al. · PLoS ONE · 2019 · 77 citations · Full text

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Why Microliths? Microlithization in the Levant

Anna Belfer‐Cohen, A. Nigel Goring‐Morris · Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association · 2002 · 48 citations

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Authors

68

  1. SR
    Subir Roychoudhury

    Precision Combustion (United States), United States

    2 publications · 24 citations

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  2. SH
    Stanley H. Ambrose

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    1 publications · 221 citations

    1

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  3. LG
    Lawrence Guy Straus

    University of New Mexico, United States

    1 publications · 25 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. AM
    Alex Mackay

    University of Wollongong, Australia

    1 publications · 85 citations

    1

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  5. MC
    Marie-Claire Cauvin

    Archéorient, France

    1 publications · 18 citations

    1

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Institutions

44

  1. Préhistoire et Technologie

    Nanterre, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    43 citations

  2. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    316 citations

  3. Precision Combustion (United States)

    North Haven, United States

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    81 citations

  4. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    498 citations

  5. University of Illinois at Springfield

    Springfield, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  6. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    170 citations

  7. Israel Antiquities Authority

    Jerusalem, Israel

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    166 citations

  8. University College Cork

    Cork, Ireland

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    64 citations

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Venues

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  2. 2

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  3. Journal of Archaeological Science

    1 publications · 166 citations

    1

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  4. PLoS ONE

    1 publications · 77 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

    1 publications · 18 citations

    1

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