  ::::Very much so. Most of my experience is in the western Canadian Plateau and Subarctic, and the the people I've learnt pretty much evrything about lithic tech from also worked either in the same regions or on European Paleaeolithic stuff. The general assumption in such parts is that folks wouldn't have wanted to bother carrying big chest punches around with them. Anyway, I'm gonna actually start writing up some of this bad boy today, it think. Right after I finish this Arabic assignment . . .   