Shiny by Design: Establishing Diagnostic Criteria for Intentional Burnishing on Prehistoric Bone Artifacts

This data repository contains the raw data to reproduce the analyses presented in the paper "Shiny by Design: Establishing Diagnostic Criteria for Intentional Burnishing on Prehistoric Bone Artifacts" by Orłowska et al. The data includes: .xlsx files containing the raw data of 3D surface measurements of experimental samples The dataset derives from an experimental study designed to evaluate the formation and diagnostic characteristics of intentional burnishing on bone surfaces. It encompasses a range of burnishing modalities using both organic (e.g., wool, leather, horsetail, shell) and mineral (e.g., flint dust, quartz sand, ash, pumice) materials.