A focus on the sharp edge of manufactured stone flakes reveals increasing control and efficiency over a 2-million-year dataset, and fosters replicable, standardized methods in lithic analysis. But scaling this method up to more complex stone tools may require further thought.
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Reynolds, N. Cutting edge analyses. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 591–592 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0511-9
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