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Papers

(The median citation count of Lithic Technology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance: An Experimental Assessment of Penetration Depth	32
Is it Time to Retire NASTIES in Southern Africa? Moving Beyond the Culture-Historical Framework for Middle Stone Age Lithic Assemblage Variability	25
Plant Foods and Different Uses of Grinding Tools at the Neolithic Site of Tanghu in Central China	15
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance II: An Experimental Assessment of Point, Haft, and Shaft Durability	14
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance III: An Experimental Assessment of Knife Cutting Efficiency	13
Reduction Sequences During the Hoabinhian Technocomplex in Cambodia and Thailand: A New Knapping Strategy in Southeast Asia from the Terminal Upper Pleistocene to mid Holocene	12
Techno-Functional Implication on the Production of Discoid and Levallois Backed Implements	10
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point: Techno-functional Study in a Late Pleistocene Artifact, Pilauco Site, Osorno, Northwestern Chilean Patagonia	8
Rethinking the Desirability of Quartz for the Manufacture of Standardized Retouched Flakes: An Example From Weereewaa (Lake George), South-eastern Australia	7
A Standardized Approach to the Origins of Lightweight-Javelin Hunting	7
Thermal Alteration of Flint: An Experimental Approach to Investigate the Effect on Material Properties	6
Extrapolating Later Acheulian Handaxe Reduction Sequences in South Africa: A Case Study from the Cave of Hearths and Amanzi Springs	5
Filling in the Blanks: Standardization of Lithic Flake Production Throughout the Stone Age	5
How Surprising are Lithic Reduction Strategies? The Information Entropy of the Modes A-I Framework	5
First Results on Understanding the Shiny Surfaces of Heat-Treated Chert	5
“Knapping, My Child, is Made of Errors”: Apprentice Knappers at Swan Point and Little Panguingue Creek, Two Prehistoric Sites in Central Alaska	5
Rock Music: An Auditory Assessment of Knapping	5
The Effect of Isometric Scaling on Flaked Stone Projectile Point Impact Durability: An Experimental Assessment	4
The Large Cutting Tools from Wonderboom, South Africa	4
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance IV: An Experimental Assessment of Knife Edge Effectiveness and Wear	4
The DISAPALE Project: A New Digital Repository of Lithic and Bone Artefacts	4
Using Dynamic Image Analysis as a Method for Discerning Microdebitage from Natural Soils in Archaeological Soil Samples	4
Revisiting the “Quartz Problem” in Lithic Studies: A Review and New, Open-access, Experimental Dataset	4
Quina Retouch Does Not Maintain Edge Angle Over Reduction	4
Lithic Arrowheads of the Nitra Culture – The Use of Actual and Experimental Use-Wear Analyses to Identify the Differential Effects of Quiver Transportation	4

Refining the Understanding of Large Cutting Tool Technology in the Baise Basin, South China	4
Standardization of Nubian Levallois Technology in Dhofar, Southern Arabia	4
A Prehistoric Rock Crystal Procurement Site at Fiescheralp (Valais, Switzerland)	3
Lithic Standardization and Behavioral Complexity in the Middle Stone Age – A Case Study From Sibhudu, South Africa	3
The Paleolithic Quartz Assemblages of Denizli (South Aegean, Western Anatolia): A Selection of Bipolar Knapping, Techno-Typological and Experimental Approaches	3
Lithic Technology in the Earliest Later Stone age at Nasera Rockshelter (Tanzania)	3
Adapting Polynesian Adze Technology to New Raw Material at Tiwai Point, Murihiku, New Zealand	3
Limaces and Unifaces in the Paiján Industry, Peru, and the Early Prehistory of America	3
Predicting Flake Mass: A View from Machine Learning	3
Morphologically Similar, but Regionally Distinct: Perdiz Arrow Points from Caddo Burial Contexts in the American Southeast	2
Can One See the Wood for the Trees in Prehistoric Egypt? A Study of Fayum Neolithic Axes	2
The Effect of Fire in the Distribution of Lithic Assemblages: An Experimental Approach	2
Final Pleistocene-Early Holocene (∼40–8 ka) Lithic Industries in Southern China and Their Implications for Understanding the Prehistory of Mainland Southeast Asia	2
Intercomparison of Form, Size and Allometry in a Million-year-old and Modern Replicated Handaxe Set	2
A New Settlement from the Epi-Palaeolithic Period: The Operational Sequence and Techno-Typology of the Knapped Stone Industry at the Kızılin Site (Antalya, Turkey)	2
Seasonal Aggregation Site in Late Paleolithic – Intrasite Analysis of Large Hamburgian Encampment in Myszęcin, Western Poland	2
Mitigating Mishaps: Diachronic Trends in Handaxe Shaping and Knapping Error Management at Amanzi Springs Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)	2
When the Leafpoints are Missing: On the Possibility of Identifying of Jerzmanowician Assemblages based on the Small Debitage Alone	2
Geochemical and Petrographic Analyses on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Cherts from the Central Region of Mediterranean Iberia	2
Using Cores as Tools: Use-wear Analysis of Neanderthal Recycling Processes in Level 4 at Prado Vargas (Cornejo, Merindad de Sotoscueva, Burgos, Spain)	2
A Trampling Experiment to Assess Fractures and Edge Damage in Quarry’s Lithic Assemblages	2
Introducing Pandado: a newly discovered Acheulean site in the central Narmada Valley (CNV), India	2
A Review of Splintered Pieces from Two Lithic Assemblages in Mediterranean Europe: Grotta Della Serratura (Marina di Camerota, Italy) and Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Spain)	2
Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards: Evaluating the Roe Handaxe Methodology in the Twenty-first Century and the Introduction of a New ‘Roe-type’ Index	2
Technological and Social Strategies for the Acquisition and Exploitation of Long-Distance Lithic Raw Materials in the Central Pampean Dunefields of Argentina	2
A Collaborative Model for Lithic Shape Digitization in Museum Settings	2
Analyzing skill in lithic dispersions using width, thickness and width-by-thickness ratio	2
Lithic Production in the Final Mesolithic in the Cantabrian Mountains: Levels III and IV at La Uña Cave (León, N Spain)	2
The Role of Side-Scrapers and Cortical Flakes in Late Acheulian Toolkits: Results of a Techno-functional Analysis from Revadim (Israel)	1
Confined Pressure Compression Scratches: A New Observation in Lithic Analysis	1
Functional Perspectives on Lithic Standardization	1
Mesolithic AMS ¹⁴C Evidence on Microlithic and Pressure Blade Technology in the Lakeland of Eastern Lithuania	1
Ghosts in the Room and Elephants in the Machine: Data Acquisition in Surface Texture Analysis of Stone Tools	1
A Bifacial Point of Extraordinary Dimensions Found in Paraná State, Southern Brazil	1
Chasing Mirages: Seeking Standardization among Prehistoric Stone Tools	1
Principles of Modern Artistic Design in Late Pleistocene Clovis Stone Biface Technology	1
Know-how, or How Knapping Experience Can Affect a Prehistoric Lithic Workshop	1
Techno-Typological Study of Tepe Abdul Hosein Stone Tools based on the National Museum Collection	1
Archaeological and Experimental Data from the Bipolar-on-Anvil Debitage in the Middle Paleolithic Site of Los Aljezares (Aspe, Alicante, Spain)	1
New Evidence of Grinding Activities in Patagonian Steppe during the Late Holocene (ca. 2000 Years BP): the Laguna Azul Site (Somuncurá Plateau, Río Negro Province, Argentina)	1
Function, Style, and Standardization: Is the Proximal or Distal End of a Middle Stone Age Point More Variable?	1
The Neolithization Process in the Lower-Scheldt Basin (Belgium, mid-6th to mid-4th Millennium cal BC) from a Lithic Technological Perspective	1
The Influence of Tool Morphology on Visual Attention During the Interaction with Lower Palaeolithic Stone Tools	1
Characteristics of Lithic Sound to Assess a Rock’s Predictability of Flaking	1
New Evidence of a Late Pleistocene Occupation on the Southern Slopes of the Alborz Mountains	1
“Tip of the Tongue”: Experimental Reconstruction of Handaxes at the Baise Basin (South China) and Implications for Lithic Standardization	1
Macanas in the Postclassic Maya Lowlands? A Preliminary Look	1
Comparing the Formation and Characteristics of Use-Wear Traces on Flint, Chert, Dolerite and Quartz	1
Protecting Sacred Space: Rosalila’s eccentric chert cache at Copan and eccentrics among the Classic Maya	1
Uniformity and Diversity in Handaxe Shape at the End of the Acheulean in Southwest Asia	1

Recycling Neolithic Axes: An Experiment Re-using Polished Axes as a Flint Source for the Creation of Small Tools	1
Skill and Core Uniformity: An Experiment with Oldowan-like Flaking Systems	1
Geometric Morphometric Analyses of Levallois Points from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic do not Support Functional Specialization	1
Lithic Raw Materials in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, South Texas and Northeast Mexico	1
An Introduction to the Late Pleistocene Lithic Industries in the East of the Iranian Plateau in Light of the New Findings from Sarbisheh Plain	1
Using Fire for Woodworking: An Experimental Exploration of Use-Wear on Lithic Tools	1
Is It Worth It? A Review of Plant Residue Analysis on Knapped Lithic Artifacts	1