Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change by Manuel Will, Hannes Rathmann

“…Here, we examine the potential of flake morphology for tracing cultural change utilising 4,512 flakes, each characterised by 16 standard mixed-scale attributes, from a well-documented cultural sequence at the Middle Stone Age site of Sibhudu, South Africa. We quantified multivariate similarities among flakes using FLEXDIST, a highly versatile method capable of handling mixed, correlated, incomplete, and high-dimensional data. …”
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Mesolithic Burials of the Volga-Urals by Aleksandr A. Vybornov, Aleksandr A. Khokhlov, Kirill I. Borodulin

“…Therefore, the purpose of the article is to analyze the complexes for their attribution to the Middle Stone Age. The paper relevance is due to the low degree of the Mesolithic burials study in the territory under consideration. …”
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