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Heat Treatment of Flint in the Scandinavian Stone Age

Year: 1982

Type: article

Abstract: Through ethnographic accounts and modern experiments it has been observed that careful heating of silica materials improves their flaking qualities. Using the scanning electron microscope, tests were carried out on a Mesolithic microblade, two Neolithic daggers, a Neolithic sickle and a Neolithic thick-butted axe, to determine if these objects had been heat treated prehistorically. Results indicated that this technique was not used and was probably unknown during the Stone Age in southern Sweden.

Source: Lund University Publications (Lund University)

Authors: Deborah S Olausson, Lars Larsson

Language: English

Topic: Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1772496380

FWCI: 2.54

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Cited by: 3

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