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Rosses Point revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter C. Woodman
Peter C. Woodman*
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Department of Archaeology, University College Cork, Ireland
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Abstract

The re-evaluation of artefacts sometimes reveals a long history of misinterpretation. Here Peter Woodman re-assesses stone tools from western Ireland which have important lessons for how our personal biases influence our interpretation of lithic assemblages.

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SligoIrelandPalaeolithicstone toolsRosses Point

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 277 , September 1998 , pp. 562 - 570
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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