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According to Wikipedia, Harold Lewis Dibble was an American Paleolithic archaeologist. His main research concerned the lithic reduction during which he conducted fieldwork in France, Egypt, and Morocco. He was a professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Curator-in-Charge of the European Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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The Interpretation of Middle Paleolithic Scraper Morphology (1987) (387)
Middle paleolithic symbolism: A review of current evidence and interpretations (1987) (320)
A New Synthesis of Middle Paleolithic Variability (1990) (315)
Middle paleolithic scraper reduction: Background, clarification, and review of the evidence to date (1995) (314)
Definition and interpretation of Levallois technology (1995) (214)
The Effect of Hammer Mass and Velocity on Flake Mass (1995) (154)
Introducing a new experimental design for controlled studies of flake formation: results for exterior platform angle, platform depth, angle of blow, velocity, and force (2009) (144)
Testing the Reality of a “Living Floor” with Archaeological Data (1997) (141)
The Missing Mousterian (2006) (141)
The Measurement and Interpretation of Cortex in Lithic Assemblages (2005) (141)
New experimental evidence on the relation between percussion flaking and flake variation (1981) (140)
Platform Variability and Flake Morphology: A Comparison of Experimental and Archaeological Data and Implications for Interpreting Prehistoric Lithic Technological Strategies (1997) (137)
New evidence on Neandertal use of fire: Examples from Roc de Marsal and Pech de l’Azé IV (2012) (123)
Handbook of paleolithic typology (1994) (123)
Major Fallacies Surrounding Stone Artifacts and Assemblages (2017) (117)
Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition [and Comments and Replies] (1982) (109)
Upper Pleistocene prehistory of Western Eurasia (1988) (108)
Multiple approaches to the study of bifacial technologies. (2003) (108)
Production and Transport of Blanks and Tools at the French Middle Paleolithic Site of Combe-Capelle Bas (1998) (107)
How heat alters underlying deposits and implications for archaeological fire features: A controlled experiment (2016) (103)
The Middle Paleolithic: Adaptation, Behavior, and Variability (1993) (102)
Flake variation in relation to the application of force (2014) (99)
A Comparative Study of Basic Edge Angle Measurement Techniques (1980) (99)
Handbook of Paleolithic Typology: Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe (1993) (94)
Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers ('Smugglers' Cave'), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels (2011) (93)
Scientific Archaeology and the Origins of Symbolism: a reply to Bednarik (1992) (92)
On the Role of Fire in Neandertal Adaptations in Western Europe: Evidence from Pech de l'Azé and Roc de Marsal, France (2011) (89)
Evidence for Neandertal use of fire at Roc de Marsal (France) (2012) (87)
A multi-method luminescence dating of the Palaeolithic sequence of La Ferrassie based on new excavations adjacent to the La Ferrassie 1 and 2 skeletons (2015) (87)
A Preliminary Report on Pech de l’Azé IV, Layer 8 (Middle Paleolithic, France) (2009) (86)
Symbolism and Modern Human Origins [and Comments and Reply] (1990) (80)
The relative effects of core surface morphology on flake shape and other attributes (2011) (77)
On the Utility and Economization of Unretouched Flakes: The Effects of Exterior Platform Angle and Platform Depth (2013) (76)
The Zagros Aurignacian (1994) (73)
The Roc de Marsal Neandertal child: a reassessment of its status as a deliberate burial. (2011) (72)
Timing of the appearance of habitual fire use (2011) (72)
The Middle Paleolithic Site of Combe-Capelle Bas (France) (1995) (72)
On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb. (2013) (71)
The Mousterian Industry from Bisitun Cave (Iran) (1984) (70)
Multi-method (TL and OSL), multi-material (quartz and flint) dating of the Mousterian site of Roc de Marsal (Dordogne, France): correlating Neanderthal occupations with the climatic variability of MIS 5–3 (2012) (63)
New Excavations at the Site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco (2012) (62)
Reduction Sequences in the Manufacture of Mousterian Implements of France (1987) (59)
Using Computers In Archaeology: A Practical Guide (2001) (59)
Nubian Complex strategies in the Egyptian high desert. (2010) (57)
On Depiction and Language (1989) (56)
Experimental Design and Experimental Inference in Stone Artifact Archaeology (2018) (54)
Mousterian Assemblage Variability on an Interregional Scale (1991) (48)
Truncated-faceted pieces: Hafting Modification, Retouch, or Cores? (2007) (47)
Stone Tool Analysis Using Digitized Images: Examples from the Lower and Middle Paleolithic (1999) (47)
A critical look at evidence from La Chapelle-aux-Saints supporting an intentional Neandertal burial (2015) (47)
Climate-mediated shifts in Neandertal subsistence behaviors at Pech de l'Azé IV and Roc de Marsal (Dordogne Valley, France). (2016) (45)
Handbook of paleolithic typology. Volume one, Lower and middle paleolithic of Europe (1993) (42)
On the Computerization of Archaeological Projects (1988) (42)
Establishing statistical confidence in Cortex Ratios within and among lithic assemblages: A case study of the Middle Paleolithic of southwestern France (2015) (42)
The Paleolithic prehistory of the Zagros-Taurus (1994) (40)
The lithic assemblages of Pech de l'Azé IV (Dordogne, France) (1999) (39)
On the Emergence of Modern Humans (1990) (39)
How Did Hominins Adapt to Ice Age Europe without Fire? (2017) (37)
Two million years of flaking stone and the evolutionary efficiency of stone tool technology (2018) (37)
Neandertal subsistence strategies during the Quina Mousterian at Roc de Marsal (France) (2017) (36)
Measurement of artifact provenience with an electronic theodolite (1987) (35)
Taphonomy and the concept of Paleolithic Cultures : the case of the Tayacian from Fontéchevade (Charente, France) (2006) (34)
Were Western European Neandertals Able to Make Fire? (2018) (34)
The late Middle Palaeolithic in Southwest France: New TL dates for the sequence of Pech de l'Azé IV (2013) (33)
TL dates for the Middle Paleolithic site of Combe-Capelle Bas, France (2003) (32)
Taphonomy and Zooarchaeology of a Mousterian Faunal Assemblage from La Quina, Charente, France (1994) (31)
Context, curation, and bias: an evaluation of the Middle Paleolithic collections of Combe-Grenal (France) (2009) (30)
Excavator Bias at the Site of Pech de l'Azé IV, France (2005) (29)
The Use of Barcodes in Excavation Projects: Examples from Mossel Bay (South Africa) and Roc de Marsal (France) (2007) (29)
Raw-Material Variation in Levallois Flake Manufacture (1985) (28)
The complementarity of luminescence dating methods illustrated on the Mousterian sequence of the Roc de Marsal: A series of reindeer-dominated, Quina Mousterian layers dated to MIS 3 (2017) (28)
Radiocarbon dates for the late Middle Palaeolithic at Pech de l'Azé IV, France (2012) (27)
Middle Palaeolithic Lithic Technology from the Western High Desert of Egypt (2009) (27)
The Cave of Fontéchevade: Recent Excavations and their Paleoanthropological Implications (2008) (26)
The age of three Middle Palaeolithic sites: Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence chronologies for Pech de l'Azé I, II and IV in France. (2016) (25)
Paleolithic Abydos: Reconstructing Individual Behaviors across the High Desert Landscape (2007) (25)
Comment on : Quantifying lithic curation : An experimental test of Dibble and Pelcin's original flake-tool mass predictor by Zachary J. Davis and John J. Shea (1998) (25)
High Desert Paleolithic Survey at Abydos, Egypt (2005) (24)
Deciphering site formation processes through soil micromorphology at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco. (2014) (22)
Technological strategies of stone tool production at Tabun Cave (Israel) (1981) (20)
The Lithic Assemblages (2018) (18)
New dates for the Fontéchevade (Charente, France) Homo remains. (2007) (17)
Lower and middle paleolithic of Europe (1994) (16)
The results of lithic experiments performed on glass cores are applicable to other raw materials (2020) (16)
Using computers in adverse field conditions: Tales from the Egyptian desert (2003) (15)
A New Method for Describing and Analyzing Artifact Shape (1981) (15)
A Core Reduction Experiment Finds No Effect of Original Stone Size and Reduction Intensity on Flake Debris Size Distribution (2016) (15)
Making silent stones speak: Human evolution and the dawn of technology. By Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas Toth. New York: Simon and Schuster: 1993. ISBN 0-671-69371-9 351 pp. $25 (cloth) (1994) (14)
Testing the Roc de Marsal Neandertal “Burial” with Geoarchaeology (2017) (14)
Desert Pavement Disturbance and Artifact Taphonomy: A Case Study from the Eastern Libyan Plateau, Egypt (2013) (14)
A worked bone assemblage from 120,000–90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco (2021) (12)
New luminescence dating results based on polymineral fine grains from the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic site of La Ferrassie (Dordogne, SW France) (2017) (12)
Virtual Dig: A Simulated Archaeological Excavation of a Middle Paleolithic Site in France (1999) (11)
Measuring spatial structure in time-averaged deposits insights from Roc de Marsal, France (2019) (11)
The Middle Paleolithic Site of Pech de l'Azé IV (2018) (10)
Temporal variations in Equus tooth isotope values (C,N,O) from the Middle Paleolithic site of Combe Grenal, France (ca. 150,000 to 50,000 BP) (2017) (10)
The effects of platform beveling on flake variation (2017) (10)
Techniques of excavation and analysis (1995) (9)
On Mousterian and Natufian Burials in the Levant (1993) (8)
Neanderthal plant use and pyrotechnology: phytolith analysis from Roc de Marsal, France (2019) (8)
Reconstructing Late Pleistocene paleoclimate at the scale of human behavior: an example from the Neandertal occupation of La Ferrassie (France) (2021) (8)
Rebuttal to Close (1991) (8)
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans@@@Context of a Late Neandertal: Implications of Multidisciplinary Research for the Transition to Upper Paleolithic Adaptations at Saint-Cesaire, Charente-Maritime, France@@@Handbook of Paleolithic Typology. Vol. 1: Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe (1997) (8)
Middle Paleolithic settlement systems: theoretical and modeling frameworks using High Desert survey data from Abydos, Egypt (2010) (8)
The role of controlled experiments in understanding variation in flake production (2016) (7)
GPS surveying and on-site stone tool analysis: Equipping teams for landscape analysis in the Egyptian High Desert (2008) (6)
Processus de formation des sites et concept du Tayacien : l’exemple de Fontéchevade (Charente, France) (The role of site formation processes in Tayacian Industries: The example of Fontéchevade (Charente, France)) (2012) (6)
More on Gender Differences and the Origin of Language (1976) (6)
Stratigraphy, Deposits, and Site Formation (2018) (6)
An application of structured light scanning to documenting excavated surfaces and in situ finds: Examples from the Middle Paleolithic sites of Jonzac and Roc de Marsal, France (2008) (5)
Hardware and software complexity in computerizing archaeological projects (1987) (5)
Artifact orientations from total station proveniences (2007) (5)
Handbook of Paleolithic Typology Vol 1: The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe (translated into Korean) (2012) (5)
Computers and prehistoric archaeology (1991) (4)
Additional chronometric data for the small flake assemblages (‘Asinipodian’) from Pech de l’Azé IV (France) and a comparison with similar assemblages at the nearby site of Roc de Marsal (2017) (4)
Middle Egypt in prehistory: A search for the origins of modern human behavior and human dispersal (2001) (4)
The Making of Combe-Capelle on CD-ROM (1997) (3)
Obsidian Source Survey and Late Quaternary Artifact Sourcing in Kenya: Implications for Early Modern Human Behavior (2012) (3)
The cave of Fontéchevade : a new investigation of the site and its paleoanthropological implications (2008) (3)
Assessing the Integrity of Older Archeological Collections: an Example from La Ferrassie (2018) (2)
Olduvai Gorge. Volume 5: Excavations in Beds III, IV, and the Masek Beds 1968-1971 (1997) (2)
Investigating variability in the frequency of fire use in the archaeological record of Late Pleistocene Europe (2022) (2)
Corrigendum to "On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb" [J. H. Evol. 64 (2013) 194–210] (2013) (2)
Processes of site formation and their implications (2009) (2)
Middle Paleolithic settlement in the Egyptian High Desert: Preliminary results (2007) (1)
New excavations at the Middle Paleolithic site of Roc de Marsal (France) (2005) (1)
Coastal marine resource exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Temara, Morocco) (2016) (1)
A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production (2022) (1)
Paleoclimate Delineation Using Magnetic Susceptibility Data (2008) (1)
Paleolithic Archaeology: The Search for Our Human Heritage (1992) (1)
Experimental Design and Experimental Inference in Stone Artifact Archaeology (2017) (0)
Assessing the Integrity of Older Archeological Collections: an Example from La Ferrassie (2018) (0)
The Cave of Fontéchevade: Introduction and Background (2008) (0)
Microcomputer Applications of Museum Collections Management (1986) (0)
Author Correction: Two million years of flaking stone and the evolutionary efficiency of stone tool technology (2019) (0)
Two million years of flaking stone and the evolutionary efficiency of stone tool technology (2018) (0)
STELLAR TECHNIQUES FOR MIDCOURSE NAVIGATION GUIDANCE (1963) (0)
A Reply to Pettitt (2016) (0)
2. Fundamental Concepts and Term (1993) (0)
Description of the lithic industries (2009) (0)
4. Technologically defined tools (1993) (0)
The Cave of Fontéchevade by Philip G. Chase (2008) (0)
The Cave of Fontéchevade: References (2008) (0)
New excavations at La Ferrassie: Preliminary results on some of the lithic industries (2013) (0)
11. Bifaces and cleavers (1993) (0)
Were Western European Neandertals Able to Make Fire? (2018) (0)
10. Pebble tools (1993) (0)
Reconstructing Late Pleistocene paleoclimate at the scale of human behavior: an example from the Neandertal occupation of La Ferrassie (France) (2020) (0)
The Human Evolution Cookbook (2003) (0)
On Raw Material and Interassemblage Variation in Stone Tools (1985) (0)
A Brief Review of the Work of Paul Goldberg in SW France (2015) (0)
ESR Dates for the Mousterian Layers and Neanderthal Infant at Roc de Marsal, Dordogne, France (2010) (0)
Middle palaeolithic lithic reduction strategies: Looking past technological analysis (2014) (0)
New data about the chronology of middle Pleistocene (MIS 5-3) Mousterian sites of southwest France: A multi-method (OSL, IRSL and TL) and multi-material (quartz, feldspars and flint) approach (2013) (0)
8. Notched and denticulated types (1993) (0)
Middle Egypt in Prehistory. (2001) (0)
2 Stratigraphy , Deposits , and Site Formation (2019) (0)
New excavations at Fontéchevade Cave (Charent, France) (1997) (0)
7. Upper paleolithic types (1993) (0)
Introduction to the 1994-1998 Excavations (2009) (0)
The Neanderthal Child of Roc de Marsal: A Prehistoric Mystery (2014) (0)
Appendix II. List of figures (1993) (0)
3. Paleolithic Techniques and Technologies (1993) (0)
Major Fallacies Surrounding Stone Artifacts and Assemblages (2016) (0)
Appendix I. The bordian method (1993) (0)
An overview of bordes’ typology (1993) (0)
Standardizing Paleolithic stone tool analysis: perspectives and prospects (2011) (0)
New research into the context of the Roc de Marsal (Dordogne, France) Neandertal (2005) (0)
BIS. Further elements on the chronology of the Roc de Marsal (sw France) middle palaeolithic sequence: Insights from quartz single grain OSL and various k-feld-spar IRSL signals (2014) (0)
Raw Material Variability and Its Effects on Flake Production (2018) (0)
Author Correction: Two million years of flaking stone and the evolutionary efficiency of stone tool technology (2019) (0)
Africa's Gateway to the World (2008) (0)
Index of tool types (1993) (0)
The effects of exterior and lateral platform morphology and raw material on flake size and shape: results from new controlled experiments (2017) (0)
The Fontéchevade fossils: A reanalysis of their archaeological context based on new axcavations (1999) (0)
Evidence for economization of lithic resources over the last 2.0 Ma (2012) (0)
A Most Interesting Career: Paul Goldberg's Other Contributions to Life and Science (2015) (0)

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