Quantifying Traces of Tool Use: A Novel Morphometric Analysis of Damage Patterns on Percussive Tools

• Matthew V. Caruana ,

  * E-mail: hominin500@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa

  ⨯
• Susana Carvalho,

  Affiliations Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

  ⨯
• David R. Braun,

  Affiliations Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

  ⨯
• Darya Presnyakova,

  Affiliation Universität Tübingen, Abteilung Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Tübingen, Germany

  ⨯
• Michael Haslam,

  Affiliation Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  ⨯
• Will Archer,

  Affiliation Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

  ⨯
• Rene Bobe,

  Affiliations Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

  ⨯
• John W. K. Harris

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

  ⨯