Event review: Using multivariate analyses to interpret lithic variability: Contributions and limitations

A selection of papers presented at the Special Session 8 ‘Using multivariate analyses to interpret lithic variability: Contributions and limitations’ held during 2018 MetroArchaeo conference (22-24 October 2018, Cassino, Italy) is published in Journal Lithic Studies. Multivariate statistical are increasingly used discern patterns variability archaeological materials help with their interpretation. Commonly ones include Principal Component Analysis, Multiple Correspondence Discriminant Regression, General Linear Model, or Cluster applied various contexts study: geometric morphometrics, spatial analysis inter-assemblage comparisons.