Dr. Danielle Macdonald specializes in the prehistory of Western Asia and the stone tools that people made and used in their everyday lives. That’s right, three years in, we’re finally doing an episode on lithics! We’ll also talk about Danielle’s path to anthropology and her ongoing work at the site of Kharaneh IV in what's today Jordan.

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• Danielle Macdonald (University of Tulsa)
• Kharaneh IV Website
• Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology (MIT Press)
• Eccentric flint (Wikipedia)
• Flint Knapping a spear head from English Flint with Will Lord (YouTube)
• Knapping a Blade Core using a Rocker Punch by Craig Ratzat!

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