Residues on stone artefacts: state of a scientific art
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Vol. 70 (270), 740-745
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00084027
Abstract
It is a startling experience to look down a microscope at a stone tool — a real Palaeolithic artefact, not a modern thing or a replicated copy — and see on its flint surface grubby brown-red stains that look the colour of old blood. Is a consensus emerging from the archaeological scientists as to just what traces of, especially, biological materials do survive on ancient stone surfaces, where they can be reliably characterized and identified?Keywords
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