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  1. Ancient toolmakers controlled stone tool production by manipulating the striking platform

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2022, PLOS

    Sam Lin

  2. Forager Mobility and Lithic Discard Probability Similarly Affect the Distance of Raw Material Discard from Source

    Article • American Antiquity, October 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Sam Lin

  3. Quina Retouch Does Not Maintain Edge Angle Over Reduction

    Article • Lithic Technology, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Sam Lin

  4. Author Correction: Two million years of flaking stone and the evolutionary efficiency of stone tool technology

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sam Lin

  5. Two million years of flaking stone and the evolutionary efficiency of stone tool technology

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sam Lin

  6. The Lithic Assemblages

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sam Lin

  7. Core Use-Life Distributions in Lithic Assemblages as a Means for Reconstructing Behavioral Patterns

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sam Lin

  8. Establishing statistical confidence in Cortex Ratios within and among lithic assemblages: a case study of the Middle Paleolithic of southwestern France

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 2015, Elsevier

    Sam Lin

  9. The application of 3D laser scanning technology to the assessment of ordinal and mechanical cortex quantification in lithic analysis

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, April 2010, Elsevier

    Sam Lin