@inproceedings{8535212,
  abstract     = {{There is an increasing number of studies that apply different kinds of high resolution imaging techniques such as SEM (Goodale et al ., 2010) and laser confocal microscopy (Ibáñez et al ., 2014) in the context of microwear analysis of lithic artefacts. Research on the effects of weathering to microwear traces has a history of a few decades (e .g . van Gijn, 1984). However the combination of these two research topics is hardly explored yet. Our research project aims to study the effects of weathering processes, such as patination and burning, on the preservation of microwear traces by exploring new and non-destructive 3D techniques. Microwear traces are one of the most important indications of the use of archaeological tools, therefore crucial in our understanding of technologies and life in the past. However, microwear analysis is a non-quantitative method, mainly based on comparison with experimental tools. Research latterly focus on methods that can help to quantify the microwear traces. A first goal of our project is the quantification of the microwear traces on experimental lithic tools and prehistoric artefacts. Experimental lithic tools are analysed in blind tests using the traditional and more state-of-art microscopic (high-power) technique. In the next phase, this microwear analysis will be repeated after laboratory induced weathering. The possible use of different 3D techniques will be tested in both phases. Comparison of the results will lead to the development of an adapted protocol for registration of microwear and weathering traces. The characterisation protocol will subsequently be applied on prehistoric artefacts from sites that belong to the transitional period of Final Mesolithic-Early Neolithic of the Scheldt valley in NW Belgium.}},
  author       = {{Halbrucker, Éva and Fiers, Géraldine and De Kock, Tim and Messiaen, Liesbeth and Vandendriessche, Hans and Cnudde, Veerle and Crombé, Philippe}},
  booktitle    = {{Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 23rd, Abstracts}},
  isbn         = {{9789057992858}},
  keywords     = {{microwear,3D,flint}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{Maastricht, the Netherlands}},
  pages        = {{98--98}},
  publisher    = {{European Association of Archaeologists}},
  title        = {{Potentials of a 3D approach for microwear analysis on flint artefacts}},
  url          = {{http://www.eaa2017maastricht.nl/}},
  year         = {{2017}},
}