“…EFA has been increasingly employed in lithic analyses, where analysts continue are developing novel approaches that advance archaeological applications (Cardillo, 2010;Fox, 2015;Ioviţă, 2009Ioviţă, , 2010Ioviţă, , 2011Ioviţă & McPherron, 2011;60 Smith et al, 2014;Gingerich et al, 2014;Sholts et al, 2012;Wilczek et al, 2015). Numerous creative research designs have also been presented that address some of the very real challenges associated with the oft-fractured and incomplete specimens abundant in the archaeological record (Byrne et al, 2016;Rezek et al, 2011;Smith, 2010;Smith & DeWitt, 2016).…”