Re-thinking the evolution of microblade technology in East Asia: Techno-functional understanding of the lithic assemblage from Shizitan 29 (Shanxi, China)

• Yanhua Song,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China

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• Stefano Grimaldi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: stefano.grimaldi@unitn.it

  Affiliations Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Anagni, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9145-8011

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• Fabio Santaniello,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Anagni, Italy, Progetto Did@ct, Trento, Italy

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• David J. Cohen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-8566

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• Jinming Shi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Shanxi Museum, Taiyuan, China

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• Ofer Bar-Yosef

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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