Materials ScienceGeography

A stab in the dark: testing the efficacy of watsonia exudate as glue for stone tool hafting

Elzanne Singels, Benjamin J. Schoville

2018.12.1SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN

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Experimental evaluation of the efficacy of glue for composite tool manufacture lays the groundwork for identifying glue as part of composite tool technological components in the archaeological record that may not yet have been identified by other analytical methods, and highlights the role USOs might have played in human technology.

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SINGELS, Elzanne; SCHOVILLE, Benjamin J. A stab in the dark: Testing the efficacy of watsonia exudate as glue for stone tool hafting. SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN, 2018, 73: 147–153.