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List of works by Benjamin J Schoville

A Middle Stone Age Paleoscape near the Pinnacle Point caves, Vleesbaai, South Africa

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A model of hunter-gatherer skeletal element transport: the effect of prey body size, carriers, and distance.

scientific article published on 21 July 2014

An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa

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An experimental investigation of the functional hypothesis and evolutionary advantage of stone-tipped spears

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Edge Damage on 500-Thousand-Year-Old Spear Tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: The Combined Effects of Spear Use and Taphonomic Processes

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Evidence for early hafted hunting technology

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Experimental lithic tool displacement due to long-term animal disturbance

Fabric Analysis and Chronology at Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, Southern Kalahari Basin: Evidence for In Situ, Stratified Middle and Later Stone Age Deposits

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Frequency and distribution of edge damage on Middle Stone Age lithic points, Pinnacle Point 13B, South Africa

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Kathu Pan 1 points and the assemblage-scale, probabilistic approach: a response to Rots and Plisson, “Projectiles and the abuse of the use-wear method in a search for impact”

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Landscape variability in tool-use and edge damage formation in South African Middle Stone Age lithic assemblages

Lithic technological responses to Late Pleistocene glacial cycling at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, South Africa

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New Experiments and a Model-Driven Approach for Interpreting Middle Stone Age Lithic Point Function Using the Edge Damage Distribution Method

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Testing a taphonomic predictive model of edge damage formation with Middle Stone Age points from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B and Die Kelders Cave 1, South Africa

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The performance of heat-treated silcrete backed pieces in actualistic and controlled complex projectile experiments

scholarly article by Benjamin J. Schoville et al published August 2017 in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

U–Pb-dated flowstones restrict South African early hominin record to dry climate phases

scientific article published in Nature