@article{cb1dd329a41b4bb691369e507779075a,
title = "Lithic raw material physical properties and use-wear accrual",
abstract = "Understanding the nature of the physical properties of lithic raw materials is a pre-requisite for developing more reliable interpretations of use-wear evidence and tool function. We use nanoindentation and use-wear experimentation as a way to measure differences in raw material surface hardness and roughness in order to show that differences in lithic material properties have implications for rates of use-wear accrual.",
keywords = "Hardness, Nanoindentation, Raw material, Roughness, Use-wear",
author = "Harry Lerner and Xiangdong Du and Andre Costopoulos and Martin Ostoja-Starzewski",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to thank George Panagiotidis for his exceptional work in preparing the hardness testing samples. Sample preparation was made possible through an internal SSHRC grant provided by McGill University. We would like to acknowledge that the work of Xiangdong Du and Dr. Martin Ostoja-Starzewski has been made possible through NSERC and the Canadian Research Chairs Program. We also thank Drs. Peter R. Norton and David J. Munoz-Paniagua of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Western Ontario for generously allowing us access to their Triboindenter lab, and their invaluable time and advice. A debt of gratitude also goes to Dr. Michael Bisson of the Department of Anthropology at McGill University for providing us with the experimental tools we used in this study, and to Roger Moore of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park for generously supplying the lithic raw materials necessary for carrying the experiments. We would also like to acknowledge the contributions made by Jennifer Bracewell, Jennifer Dickson, Deanna Dytchkowskyj, Colin Nielsen and Joanna Rowell through their invaluable participation in the experimental program. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2007",
month = may,
doi = "10.1016/j.jas.2006.07.009",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "34",
pages = "711--722",
journal = "Journal of Archaeological Science",
issn = "0305-4403",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "5",
}