Table 6 Number of artefacts with plant and/or animal residues, by technological class.

From: Combined organic biomarker and use-wear analyses of stone artefacts from Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia

Technological class

Number of artefacts with residuesa

Total number of analysed stonesb

Artefacts with residues compared to the total (%)

Broken flake

6

16

38

Retouched flake

6

7

86

Complete flake

10

31

32

Core/retouched split cobble

2

5

40

Broken retouched flake

3

5

60

Otherc

0

5

0

  1. aAs determined by GC-MS organic biomarker analysis.
  2. bWithin the sub-sample selected for this study.
  3. cNon-diagnostic artefact (n = 1), non-artefact (n = 1), broken pounding stone (n = 1), debris (n = 1) and broken hammerstone (n = 1).
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