title: Advantages of Scar-Pattern Analysis in the Study of Paleolithic Сores.
abstract: Scar-pattern or working step analysis is one of the main components of technological analysis. This analysis is usually applied to reconstruct the technological sequence of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bifacial tools. In addition to bifacial implements, the scar-pattern analysis is applied to geometric microliths and to macro-implements made on large flakes, such as Quina scrapers. However, the potential of this analysis is much wider. Here we present the basic approaches and algorithm for the 
journal: Teoriya i praktika arkheologicheskikh issledovaniy