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Web Sites in Category Microwear Analysis

Determination of Stone Tool Use - An Investigation of the Late-Paleoindian Component at Dust Cave by Angela Davis. Includes a microwear image gallery with examples of discrete types of damage resulting from different working actions.

Interpreting the Function of Stone Tools - Describes the methodology and quantification of microwear analysis. Hypertext version of 1989 book on quantification and computerisation of microwear analysis by Roger Grace

Lithic Usewear Investigation Report - A report by Cameron M. Smith that examines and quantifies the use-related modification observed on an assemblage of obsidian artifacts collected at the Harney Dune site located in southern Oregon.

Projectile Point Use-Wear Bibliography - Compiled by John Dockall.

The Function of Hopewell Blades from the Southeast - A research paper by Larry R. Kimball published in the McClung Museum Research Notes 1992. Features a description of the artifacts and a discussion of the utility and methodology of microwear analysis.

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