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Microburins and microliths of the Levantine Epipalaeolithic: a comment on the paper by Neely & Barton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Daniel Kaufman
Daniel Kaufman*
Affiliation:
Zinman Instute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131, USA
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Issue is taken with the arguments offered by Neeley & Barton to explain interassemblage variability in the Epipalaeolithic. The techno-typological attributes they discuss do, indeed, mark cultural/temporal traditions and there are no grounds for viewing them as representing stages within a reduction sequence.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 263 , June 1995 , pp. 375 - 381
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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