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CITATIONS AND FURTHER RESOURCES

Below are some links related to archaeology that you might want to explore on your own time. Thanks again! 

The Met Museum Online Gallery

Flintknapping Basics

Arrowhead Basics

Citations: 

Corbey, R., Jagich, A., Vaesen, K. and Collard, M. (2016), The acheulean handaxe: More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune?. Evol. Anthropol., 25: 6-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21467


De La Torre Ignacio. 2016, The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution,Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B3712015024520150245


Gowlett JAJ. 2006The elements of design form in Acheulian bifaces: modes, modalities, rules and language. In Axe Age Acheulian toolmaking from quarry to discard (eds Goren-Inbar N, Sharon G), pp. 203–221. London, UK: Equinox.


Heather L. Smith, Ted Goebel. 2018, Origins and spread of fluted-point technology in the Canadian Ice-Free Corridor and eastern Beringia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Apr 2018, 115 (16) 4116-4121; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1800312115 


Hirst, K. Kris. "Acheulean Handaxe: Definition and History." ThoughtCo, Aug. 25, 2020, thoughtco.com/acheulean-handaxe-first-tool-171238.


Hodgson, Derek. The symmetry of Acheulean handaxes and cognitive evolution, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 2, 2015, Pages 204-208, ISSN 2352-409X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.02.002.


Iovita R., Shannon M., (2011) The handaxe reloaded: A morphometric reassessment of Acheulian and Middle Paleolithic handaxes, Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-74, ISSN 0047-2484, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.02.007


Iovita R, Tuvi-Arad I, Moncel MH, Despriée J, Voinchet P, et al. (2017) High handaxe symmetry at the beginning of the European Acheulian: The data from la Noira (France) in context. PLOS ONE 12(5): e0177063. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177063

Manuel Santonja, Susana Rubio-Jara, Joaquín Panera, Laura Sánchez-Romero, Antonio Tarriño, Alfredo Pérez-González, Ambrona revisited: The Acheulean lithic industry in the Lower Stratigraphic Complex, Quaternary International, Volume 480, 2018, Pages 95-117,

ISSN 1040-6182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.01.021


Zhilin, M.. (2015). Early Mesolithic bone arrowheads from the Volga-Oka interfluve, central Russia. 32. 35-54. 

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