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The Technique of Blade Production in Mesolithic and Neolithic Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

Alfred S. Barnes
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This paper deals with the production of long blades of obsidian and flint and with the techniques employed in the production of short blades in Mesolithic and Neolithic industries. Owing to the exigencies of war and the inaccessibility of material the range and the treatment of the subject have necessarily been restricted. Nevertheless the existence of identical techniques in England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Hungary, the Mediterranean, India, America and S.W. Australia, may not be without interest.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 13 , 1947 , pp. 101 - 113
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1947

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