Biography of Are Tsirk (1937-2015): Flintknapper and scholar

<p>Are Tsirk was as much a scholar as he was a flintknapper. These disciplines were intertwined and expressed in his experimental research, by way of his exploration of fractography, and his replication of stone tools which spanned the archaeological record of several continents.</p>

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Main Author: Steve Adams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2015-03-01
Series:Journal of Lithic Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/1293
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title Biography of Are Tsirk (1937-2015): Flintknapper and scholar
title_short Biography of Are Tsirk (1937-2015): Flintknapper and scholar
title_full Biography of Are Tsirk (1937-2015): Flintknapper and scholar
title_fullStr Biography of Are Tsirk (1937-2015): Flintknapper and scholar
title_full_unstemmed Biography of Are Tsirk (1937-2015): Flintknapper and scholar
title_sort biography of are tsirk (1937-2015): flintknapper and scholar
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series Journal of Lithic Studies
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publishDate 2015-03-01
description <p>Are Tsirk was as much a scholar as he was a flintknapper. These disciplines were intertwined and expressed in his experimental research, by way of his exploration of fractography, and his replication of stone tools which spanned the archaeological record of several continents.</p>
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biography
flintknapper
fractography
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