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A Skeptic Views the Billet Flake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

H. Mewhinney
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Abstract

Although noted authorities contend that percussion flakes made with a wooden billet are thinner and shapelier than those made with a hammerstone, this experimenter wishes to report that he can see no difference, even when he strikes off the flakes himself. He begins to doubt that anybody else can tell the difference.

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Facts and Comments
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American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 2Part1 , October 1964, pp. 203 - 205
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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