Extensive Heat Treatment in Middle Stone Age Silcrete Tool Production in South Africa (IMAGE)

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Extensive Heat Treatment in Middle Stone Age Silcrete Tool Production in South Africa

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Humans living in South Africa in the Middle Stone Age may have used advanced heating techniques to produce silcrete blades, according to a study published Oct. 19, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Anne Delagnes from the CNRS (PACEA - University of Bordeaux, France) and colleagues.

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Delagnes et al (2016)

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