@article {9623,
	title = {A Quantitative Shape Analysis of Early Palaeo-Eskimo Endblades from Northern Devon Island},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {14},
	year = {1990},
	pages = {107-122},
	abstract = {<p>Two influential studies of typological variation in Palaeo-Eskimo stone tools, one by M.S. Maxwell and the other by Robert McGhee, are summarized and critiqued. Both studies are shown to be conceptually and methodologically flawed. The pessimistic conclusions of both studies are therefore challenged. To demonstrate the potential for discovering meaningful typological variability in Palaeo-Eskimo stone tools the results of a pilot analysis of the digitally-derived morphological attributes of 33 small triangular bifaces recovered from ten Pre-Dorset sites located on the northeast coast of Devon Island are summarized. Principle components analysis and cluster analysis of this data set help to define three discrete morphological \&$\#$39;shapes\&$\#$39; in the sample of small bifaces. A cross-tabulation indicates that changes in the relative frequency of specimens assigned to the three morphological \&$\#$39;types\&$\#$39; correlate with the temporal ordering of the assemblage.</p>},
	author = {James W. Helmer and Ian G. Robertson}
}
