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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Editor’s Lair: Introduction to Experiments in Stone Tool Analysis	17
Food Production and Manufacturing Tools of the Hormangan Neolithic Society, Iran	16
The Large Cutting Tools from Wonderboom, South Africa	14
Canaanean Blade Production at Fazael 4 and the Tal`at `Amreh Quarry	11
New Data for Asymmetric Core Reduction in Western Tian Shan Piedmonts: The Ertash Sai 2 Open-Air Site	9
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)	8
Techno-Typological Study of Tepe Abdul Hosein Stone Tools based on the National Museum Collection	7
Contributions and Limitations of a Technomorphometric Approach for Cleavers: The Case of Lanne-Darré (Hautes-Pyrénées)	7
Technological and Protein Residue Analysis on Ancient Stemmed Projectile Points of the Southern Andes Highlands	7
A Strategic Approach to Stone Tool Economy: An Example from Southwest Germany	6
Understanding Chipped Stone Drills from an Iroquoian Village Site	6
The Role of Side-Scrapers and Cortical Flakes in Late Acheulian Toolkits: Results of a Techno-functional Analysis from Revadim (Israel)	6
Raw Material Consumption Strategies in Holocenic Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Groups from the South-Eastern Coast of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina): A Use-Wear Perspective.	5
Is It Worth It? A Review of Plant Residue Analysis on Knapped Lithic Artifacts	4
Lithic Production in the Final Mesolithic in the Cantabrian Mountains: Levels III and IV at La Uña Cave (León, N Spain)	4
The Paleolithic Quartz Assemblages of Denizli (South Aegean, Western Anatolia): A Selection of Bipolar Knapping, Techno-Typological and Experimental Approaches	4
Comparing the Formation and Characteristics of Use-Wear Traces on Flint, Chert, Dolerite and Quartz	4
Analyzing skill in lithic dispersions using width, thickness and width-by-thickness ratio	4
Archaeological and Experimental Data from the Bipolar-on-Anvil Debitage in the Middle Paleolithic Site of Los Aljezares (Aspe, Alicante, Spain)	4
Rock Music: An Auditory Assessment of Knapping	4
“Tip of the Tongue”: Experimental Reconstruction of Handaxes at the Baise Basin (South China) and Implications for Lithic Standardization	3
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance V: An Experimental Assessment of Spear Thrusting Penetration Depth and Entry Wound Size	3
Flexibility of the Levallois Concept in the Italian Late Middle Palaeolithic	3
Macanas in the Postclassic Maya Lowlands? A Preliminary Look	3
A Trampling Experiment to Assess Fractures and Edge Damage in Quarry’s Lithic Assemblages	3

Know-how, or How Knapping Experience Can Affect a Prehistoric Lithic Workshop	2
Macrodebitage Writ Small? Studying Stoneknapping with Experimental Archaeology, Dynamic Image Analysis, and Statistics	2
Core Concept: Defining Cores in the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia	2
Criteria for Identifying Knapping Skill Level Through the Analysis of Lithic Cores: An Example from Val Lastari, Late Palaeolithic, Italy	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
Lithic Technological Organization in the Changbai Mountains at the Onset of the Last Glacial Maximum: A Case Study of Assemblages from the Lower Layers of the Helong Dadong Site (27-24 Ka)	2
Chasing Mirages: Seeking Standardization among Prehistoric Stone Tools	2
The Implements of the Blade House: The Function and Symbolic Significance of Laurel-leaf Bifaces from Caves in Central Belize	2
An Introduction to the Late Pleistocene Lithic Industries in the East of the Iranian Plateau in Light of the New Findings from Sarbisheh Plain	2
A Standardized Approach to the Origins of Lightweight-Javelin Hunting	2
A Collaborative Model for Lithic Shape Digitization in Museum Settings	2
External and Terminal Ballistics of Early Bronze Age Lithic Arrowheads: Experimental Verification	2
Nieborowa – Campsites of a Mesolithic Community in the Context of Spatial-Functional Studies (Poland). Interpretation of the Settlement Model	2
Principles of Modern Artistic Design in Late Pleistocene Clovis Stone Biface Technology	2
Hafting with a Living Tree: A Historical Review of the Alleged Practice of Growth-Assisted Hafting	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
Characteristics of Lithic Sound to Assess a Rock’s Predictability of Flaking	2
The DISAPALE Project: A New Digital Repository of Lithic and Bone Artefacts	2
Transformation and Sustainability Within Levallois Reduction Strategy of Sürmecik, Western Anatolia/Aegean	2
Lithic Standardization and Behavioral Complexity in the Middle Stone Age – A Case Study From Sibhudu, South Africa	2
Using Fire for Woodworking: An Experimental Exploration of Use-Wear on Lithic Tools	2
Intercomparison of Form, Size and Allometry in a Million-year-old and Modern Replicated Handaxe Set	2
Predicting Flake Mass: A View from Machine Learning	2
Early Evidence of Atlatl Use in the Titicaca Basin: A Lithic, Microwear, and Typological Analysis	2
A Flint Industry from the Pottery Neolithic Lodian Hamlet at Nahal Yarmuth 38, Central Israel	2
Variable Perspectives on “ Standardization in the Stone Age ”	2
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance III: An Experimental Assessment of Knife Cutting Efficiency	2
Wolfgang Taute’s Excavation at the Open-Air Site Feuersteinacker and the Early Mesolithic in the Western Part of Central Germany	2
Exploring the Gross-Edge Curvature of Experimentally Produced Preferential Levallois Debitage	1
New Analysis of Unifacially Shaped Technology from the Tropical Lowlands of Colombia	1
Lithic residue analysis – a review and guide to techniques	1
Understanding Chipped Stone Tools	1
Filling in the Blanks: Standardization of Lithic Flake Production Throughout the Stone Age	1
Assessing the Role of Early “Large Cutting Tools” in Flake Production: an Experimental Comparison of Early Acheulean Handaxe and Oldowan Core Manufacture	1
Technological and Social Strategies for the Acquisition and Exploitation of Long-Distance Lithic Raw Materials in the Central Pampean Dunefields of Argentina	1
The Effect of Fire in the Distribution of Lithic Assemblages: An Experimental Approach	1
PROJECTILE Point Stem Repairs. Some Examples from Southeastern South America	1
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point: Techno-functional Study in a Late Pleistocene Artifact, Pilauco Site, Osorno, Northwestern Chilean Patagonia	1
Geochemical and Petrographic Analyses on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Cherts from the Central Region of Mediterranean Iberia	1
Prehistoric stone tools of Eastern Africa: a guide	1
Description, Microwear, and Morphometrics of Clovis and Possible-Clovis Lithic Artifacts from the Kasten Site, Erie County, Ohio, USA	1
Morphometric Characterization of Denticulate Edged Tools from the Northern Coast of the Santa Cruz Province, Argentine Patagonia	1