Page 1/30 A geometric morphometric approach to testing discrete categories of backed ｧakes from recurrent centripetal core reduction Guillermo Bustos-Pérez (  guillermo.bustos@uam.es ) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Brad Gravina Musée national de Préhistoire Michel Brenet Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, PACEA, UMR-5199 Francesca Romagnoli Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Research Article Keywords: lithic analysis, lithic technology, geometric morphometrics, machine learning, Middle Paleolithic, Levallois, discoidal Posted Date: January 13th, 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2462359/v1 License:   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Additional Declarations: No competing interests reported. Version of Record: A version of this preprint was published at Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology on February 3rd, 2024. See the published version at https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-023-00167-7.