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Metallic Powder as an Aid to Stone Tool Photography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Errett Callahan
Errett Callahan*
Affiliation:
Piltdown Productions, 3412 Plymouth PL, Lynchburg, VA 24503
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Abstract

The use of dry metallic powder is suggested as a means of enhancing photography of obsidian or glassy stone tools.

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Reports
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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 768 - 772
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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