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  1. The driving force behind tool-stone selection in the African Middle Stone Age

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Patrick Schmidt

  2. Knapping force as a function of stone heat treatment

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2022, PLOS

    Patrick Schmidt

  3. Early humans in the Middle Stone Age preferred to distil glue instead of collecting resin

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Patrick Schmidt

  4. Solutrean laurel-leaf points of Volgu: heat-treated or not?

    Article • Antiquity, June 2018, Antiquity Publications

    Professor Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, Patrick Schmidt

  5. First Insights into the Technique Used for Heat Treatment of Chert at the Solutrean Site of Laugerie-Haute, France

    Article • Archaeometry, February 2018, Wiley

    Patrick Schmidt

  6. Heat treatment in the South African Middle Stone Age: temperature induced transformations of silcrete and their technological implications

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, Patrick Schmidt