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Dibble’s Reduction Thesis: Its Implications for Lithic Analysis and Macroarchaeology (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Establishing the Science of Paleolithic Archaeology: The Legacy of Harold Dibble (1951–2018) Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dibble demonstrated systematic effects of reduction on the size and shape of Middle Paleolithic flake tools. He identified independent (e.g., platform dimensions,) and dependent (e.g. flake mass) variables that registered the degree and pattern of reduction experienced by retouched tools....