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List of works by Metin I Eren

A New Look at Flaked Stone Projectiles from the Mixter Site (33-ER-4), Erie County, Ohio, USA

A Statistical Examination of Flake Edge Angles Produced During Experimental Lineal Levallois Reductions and Consideration of Their Functional Implications

scientific article published on 24 March 2015

An empirical test of the relative frequency of bipolar reduction in Beds VI, V, and III at Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania: implications for the East African Middle to Late Stone Age transition

scholarly article by Metin I. Eren published in January 2013

Are Upper Paleolithic blade cores more productive than Middle Paleolithic discoidal cores? A replication experiment

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

Assessing raw material’s role in bipolar and freehand miniaturized flake shape, technological structure, and fragmentation rates

scientific article published on 8 May 2018

Book Reviews

Built-in Misdirection: On the Difficulties of Learning to Knap

Controlled experiments support the role of function in the evolution of the North American copper tool repertoire

scientific article published in August 2019

Description, Geometric Morphometrics, and Microwear of Five Clovis Fluted Projectile Points from Lucas and Wood Counties, Northwest Ohio, USA

scientific article published on 30 August 2020

Design Space and Cultural Transmission: Case Studies from Paleoindian Eastern North America

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Developing a stable point: Evaluating the temporal and geographic consistency of Late Prehistoric unnotched triangular point functional design in Midwestern North America

scholarly article by Michelle Rae Bebber published in September 2017

Does butchering fish leave cut marks?

scientific article published in May 2008

Dynamic Approaches to Teaching Lithic Technology

scientific article published in September 2010

Environment-induced changes in selective constraints on social learning during the peopling of the Americas.

scientific article

Estimating the richness of a population when the maximum number of classes is fixed: a nonparametric solution to an archaeological problem

scientific article

Experimental Evaluation of the Levallois “Core Shape Maintenance” Hypothesis

Experimental assessment of proximal-lateral edge grinding on haft damage using replicated Late Pleistocene (Clovis) stone projectile points

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Explaining the origin of fluting in North American Pleistocene weaponry

FROM THE YENISEI TO THE YUKON: INTERPRETING LITHIC ASSEMBLAGE VARIABILITY IN LATE PLEISTOCENE/EARLY HOLOCENE BERINGIA

Factors affecting Acheulean handaxe variation: Experimental insights, microevolutionary processes, and macroevolutionary outcomes

scholarly article

Fractal analysis

From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America. C. Britt Bousman and Bradley J. Vierra, editors. 2012. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 327 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN-13: 9

Human behavior or taphonomy? On the breakage of Eastern North American Paleoindian endscrapers

scientific article published on 9 July 2020

Hunter-gatherer gatherings: stone-tool microwear from the Welling Site (33-Co-2), Ohio, U.S.A. supports Clovis use of outcrop-related base camps during the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

IN THE EASTERN FLUTED POINT TRADITION

Invention or diffusion: on the appearance of limestone temper in the late Holocene archeological record of southern Ohio, USA

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Kuhn's Geometric Index of Unifacial Stone Tool Reduction (GIUR): does it measure missing flake mass?

Levallois economics: an examination of ‘waste’ production in experimentally produced Levallois reduction sequences

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Levallois lessons: the challenge of integrating mathematical models, quantitative experiments and the archaeological record

scholarly article by Stephen J. Lycett published in August 2013

Levallois: Potential Implications for Learning and Cultural Transmission Capacities

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MORE ON THE RUMOR OF “INTENTIONAL OVERSHOT FLAKING” AND THE PURPORTED ICE-AGE ATLANTIC CROSSING

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Middle Paleolithic Skill Level and the Individual Knapper: An Experiment

Miniaturization optimized weapon killing power during the social stress of late pre-contact North America (AD 600-1600)

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Nicholas Ashton. Early humans. 2017. London: HarperCollins; 978-0-00-8150341-8 £35

On Identifying Stone Tool Production Techniques: An Experimental and Statistical Assessment of Pressure Versus Soft Hammer Percussion Flake Form

On the Inferred Age and Origin of Lithic Bi-Points from the Eastern Seaboard and their Relevance to the Pleistocene Peopling of North America

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

On the Presumed Clovis-Age Structure at the Paleo Crossing Site, Ohio

scientific article published on 7 December 2021

On thin ice: problems with Stanford and Bradley's proposed Solutrean colonisation of North America

scholarly article by Michael J. O'Brien published in June 2014

PALEOINDIAN LIFEWAYS OF THE CODY COMPLEX

Paleoindian unifacial stone tool 'spurs': intended accessories or incidental accidents?

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Preface to ‘Faunal Extinctions and Introductions’

scholarly article by Metin I. Eren published in March 2012

Quantifying and Comparing Bipolar Versus Freehand Flake Morphologies, Production Currencies, and Reduction Energetics During Lithic Miniaturization

Refuting the technological cornerstone of the Ice-Age Atlantic crossing hypothesis

scholarly article by Metin I. Eren et al published July 2013 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Rock Music: An Auditory Assessment of Knapping

scientific article published in 2021

Settling into the country: Comparison of Clovis and Folsom lithic networks in western North America shows increasing redundancy of toolstone use

scholarly article by Briggs Buchanan published in March 2019

Social learning and technological evolution during the Clovis colonization of the New World

scientific article published on 7 February 2015

Southeastern Mediterranean Peoples Between 130,000 and 10,000 Years Ago, by Elena A.A. Garcea (Editor)

Study of the SHK Main Site faunal assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Implications for Bed II taphonomy, paleoecology, and hominin utilization of megafauna

scholarly article by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo et al published February 2014 in Quaternary International

THE LIFEWAYS OF HUNTER-GATHERERS: THE FORAGING SPECTRUM

Test, Model, and Method Validation: The Role of Experimental Stone Artifact Replication in Hypothesis-driven Archaeology

scholarly article by Metin I. Eren published in July 2016

The Black Diamond Site, Northeast Ohio, USA: a New Clovis Occupation in a Proposed Secondary Staging Area

scientific article published in March 2019

The Cinmar discovery and the proposed pre-Late Glacial Maximum occupation of North America

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The Early Acheulean in Africa

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The Lives of Stone Tools: Crafting the Status, Skill, and Identity of Flintknappers

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

The exceptional abandonment of metal tools by North American hunter-gatherers, 3000 B.P

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

The role of raw material differences in stone tool shape variation: an experimental assessment

scientific article published in September 2014

The technology of Stone Age colonization: an empirical, regional-scale examination of Clovis unifacial stone tool reduction, allometry, and edge angle from the North American Lower Great Lakes region

scientific article published in April 2013

The three lives of a uniface

scientific article published in February 2015

Thermal engineering of stone increased prehistoric toolmaking skill

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Thermoluminescence (TL) and Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dating of Two Burned Clovis Wyandotte Chert Lithic Specimens from Paleo Crossing (33ME274), Ohio, USA

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Tip cross-sectional geometry predicts the penetration depth of stone-tipped projectiles

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Toolstone constraints on knapping skill: Levallois reduction with two different raw materials

scientific article published in October 2011

Toward Recognizing the Prehistoric Butchery of Frozen Meat: An Archaeological Experiment and Stone Tool Microwear Analysis

scholarly article by Samantha Kirgesner published in October 2018

Toward a functional understanding of the North American Old Copper Culture “technomic devolution”

scientific article published in October 2018

Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic

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Underestimating Kanzi? Exploring Kanzi-Oldowan comparisons in light of recent human stone tool replication

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Why Levallois? A morphometric comparison of experimental 'preferential' Levallois flakes versus debitage flakes

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Why invent the handle? Electromyography (EMG) and efficiency of use data investigating the prehistoric origin and selection of hafted stone knives

scientific article published on 14 September 2021

“DISSECTING” QUARTZITE AND BASALT BIPOLAR FLAKE SHAPE: A MORPHOMETRIC COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL REPLICATIONS FROM OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA

scholarly article by Alia N. Gurtov et al published 4 August 2015 in Lithic Technology