Usewear on the platform: 'Use-flakes' and 'Retouch-flakes' from Northern Australia and Timor

Elspeth Hayes; Richard Fullagar; Christopher J Clarkson; Susan O'Connor

Usewear on the platform: 'Use-flakes' and 'Retouch-flakes' from Northern Australia and Timor

Elspeth Hayes, Richard Fullagar, Christopher J Clarkson, Susan O'Connor

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Abstract

Small flakes from stone tools are often detached during use (use-flakes) and edge modification (retouch-flakes). Sometimes traces of use are preserved and indicate use along the external platform edge prior to detachment. Unlike complete tools, which may have been curated and used elsewhere, use-flakes and retouch-flakes potentially provide stronger evidence that the activities identified by use-wear traces on the lithic artefacts took place at the site where the flakes were recovered. This preliminary study examines the nature of hammer wear, usewear and residues on stone tools, retouch-flakes and use-flakes from sites in northern Australia and Timor.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools: Proceedings of the International Workshop, Rome, March 5thâ€“7th, 2012
Editors	Cristina Lemorini and Stella Nunziante Cesaro
Place of Publication	Oxford, England
Publisher	Archaeopress
Pages	77-90
Edition	Peer Reviewed
ISBN (Print)	9781407312880
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools - Rome, Italy, Italy Duration: 1 Jan 2014 → …

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Conference	An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools
Country/Territory	Italy
Period	1/01/14 → …
Other	5-7 March 2012

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Hayes, E., Fullagar, R., Clarkson, C. J., & O'Connor, S. (2014). Usewear on the platform: 'Use-flakes' and 'Retouch-flakes' from Northern Australia and Timor. In C. L. A. S. N. C. (Ed.), An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools: Proceedings of the International Workshop, Rome, March 5thâ€“7th, 2012 (Peer Reviewed ed., pp. 77-90). Archaeopress.

Hayes, Elspeth ; Fullagar, Richard ; Clarkson, Christopher J et al. / Usewear on the platform: 'Use-flakes' and 'Retouch-flakes' from Northern Australia and Timor. An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools: Proceedings of the International Workshop, Rome, March 5thâ€“7th, 2012. editor / Cristina Lemorini and Stella Nunziante Cesaro. Peer Reviewed. ed. Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2014. pp. 77-90

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Hayes, E, Fullagar, R, Clarkson, CJ & O'Connor, S 2014, Usewear on the platform: 'Use-flakes' and 'Retouch-flakes' from Northern Australia and Timor. in CLASNC (ed.), An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools: Proceedings of the International Workshop, Rome, March 5thâ€“7th, 2012. Peer Reviewed edn, Archaeopress, Oxford, England, pp. 77-90, An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools, Italy, 1/01/14.

Usewear on the platform: 'Use-flakes' and 'Retouch-flakes' from Northern Australia and Timor. / Hayes, Elspeth; Fullagar, Richard; Clarkson, Christopher J et al.
An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools: Proceedings of the International Workshop, Rome, March 5thâ€“7th, 2012. ed. / Cristina Lemorini and Stella Nunziante Cesaro. Peer Reviewed. ed. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2014. p. 77-90.

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