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Some Aspects of Microscope Analysis and Photomicrography of Lithic Artifacts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George F. MacDonald
Affiliation:
National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June, 1967
David Sanger
Affiliation:
National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June, 1967

Abstract

Interest in the use of microscopes for the analysis of lithic technology and functional interpretations has increased in recent years. Some minerals and rocks are more suitable than others for these studies. In order to communicate the observations made through the microscope, the archaeologist can use the microscope to take photomicrographs using relatively simple and inexpensive equipment.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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