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It is axiomatic that the most common artifactual material of prehistory is stone — rocks and/or minerals. Stone was the most durable of all materials available to early humans and, in most environmental settings, the most readily available. Its durability made it desirable for a multitude of tasks as well as helping ensure its survival in archaeological sites. For the archaeologist the survival of ancient human stone tools and artifacts has been both a blessing and a source of unintentional biases in terms of the reconstruction of past cultural behavior. Even with the earliest human culture surely there were other implements other than those of stone.
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Garrison, E.G. (2003). Petrography for Archaeological Geology. In: Techniques in Archaeological Geology. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05163-4_6
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