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pressure flaking: a standalone construct

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Lithic analysis

removing flakes or blades by pressing rather than striking, shown by experiment to produce long, regular obsidian blades.

In lithic analysis, pressure flaking refers to removing flakes or blades by pressing rather than striking, shown by experiment to produce long, regular obsidian blades. This meaning comes from Crabtree (1968) in American Antiquity.[1]

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References

  1. Crabtree, D. E. (1968). Mesoamerican Polyhedral Cores and Prismatic Blades. American Antiquity, 33(4), 446-478. https://doi.org/10.2307/278596

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