Japanese scientists investigate the mysteries of Stone Age tools

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Archaeology Today

I’m posting this article here not because it is about a ground-breaking new study but as an example of the communication problem archaeology still has. It’s a worthy project, but the thing about this study is that it is completely mundane. It uses techniques invented in the 1950s and widely used in prehistoric studies since the 1990s (especially in French research, which might also be a factor here), namely controlled experimental archaeology, micro wear studies and chaîne operatoire. That t…