Every contact leaves a trace: Documenting contamination in lithic residue studies at the Middle Palaeolithic sites of Lusakert Cave 1 (Armenia) and Crvena Stijena (Montenegro)

• Ellery Frahm ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ellery Frahm, Gilliane Monnier

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

  * E-mail: ellery.frahm@yale.edu

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7858-3523

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• Daniel S. Adler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Boris Gasparyan,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

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• Bing Luo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Characterization Facility, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Carolina Mallol,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Prehistoria, Antropología e Historia Antigua, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

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• Goran Pajović,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Museum of Montenegro, Cetinje, Montenegro

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• Gilbert B. Tostevin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Benik Yeritsyan,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

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• Gilliane Monnier

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ellery Frahm, Gilliane Monnier

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

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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