Analyzing blank cutting edge efficiency associated with the adoption of microblade technology: A case study from Tolbor-17, Mongolia

• Corey L. Johnson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Corey L. Johnson, Mark N. Grote, Nicolas Zwyns

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

  * E-mail: corjohnson@ucdavis.edu

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9054-9168

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• Tsedendorj Bolorbat,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0176-7644

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• Mark N. Grote ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Corey L. Johnson, Mark N. Grote, Nicolas Zwyns

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

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America

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• Clea H. Paine ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CHP and MI also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Archaeology Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, Kirkwall, United Kingdom

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• Guunii Lkhundev,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6718-8026

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• Davaakhuu Odsuren,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Department of History, Mongolian National University of Education, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Masami Izuho ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CHP and MI also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6598-1562

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• Byambaa Gunchinsuren,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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• Nicolas Zwyns

  Contributed equally to this work with: Corey L. Johnson, Mark N. Grote, Nicolas Zwyns

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

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States of America, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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