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Type of stone tool
In archaeology, a flake tool is a type of stone tool that was used during the Stone Age that was created by striking a flake from a prepared stone core
Flake_tool
Portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure
reduced by the removal of flakes, is known as a core. Once the proper tool stone has been selected, a percussor or pressure flaker (e.g., an antler tine)
Lithic_flake
Stone age tool
type of stone tool, a handheld lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which prehistoric humans used for carving or finishing wood or bone tools or weapons
Burin_(lithic_flake)
once it is too small to continue producing flakes. In some strategies, however, a flintknapper makes a tool from the core by reducing it to a rough unifacial
Stone_tool
Archaeological culture
Pleistocene. These early tools were simple, usually made by chipping one, or a few, flakes off a stone using another stone. Oldowan tools were used during a
Oldowan
Process of fashioning stones or rocks into tools and weapons
starting point may be a piece of the debitage, a flake removed from a previous operation to make a larger tool. The selected piece is called the lithic core
Lithic_reduction
Long, narrow, specialized stone flake tool with a sharp edge, like a small razor blade
In archaeology, a prismatic blade is a long, narrow, specialized stone flake tool with a sharp edge, like a small razor blade. Blade segments were sometimes
Prismatic_blade
Rock shelter in Oregon, United States
Ten centimeters below the teeth fragments an orange agate/chalcedony flake tool was collected. In 2017, further orange agate/chalcedony debitage was found
Rimrock_Draw_Rockshelter
Technique of manufacturing stone tools
stone tools and flintlock strikers, chert is worked using a fabricator such as a hammerstone to remove lithic flakes from a nucleus or core of tool stone
Knapping
Archaeological culture associated with Homo erectus
The Mode 1 industries created rough flake tools by hitting a suitable stone with a hammerstone. The resulting flake that broke off would have a natural
Acheulean
Classification of European archaeology
included flint chopping tools, flint flakes and the tip of a worked wooden shaft, the Clacton Spear. Further examples of the tools have been found at sites
Clactonian
Stone hand-tool
of stone tool that has been flaked on one surface only. There are two general classes of uniface tools: modified flakes and formalized tools, which display
Uniface
Distinctive type of stone knapping technique used by ancient humans
edge than the other flake-making technique under same amount of cores, and no need to worry about the lack of raw material to make tools. There is disagreement
Levallois_technique
Prehistoric period before metal tools
example of a flake tradition. The early flake industries probably contributed to the development of the Middle Paleolithic flake tools of the Mousterian
Stone_Age
Biface stone tool
the tool. Acheulean cleavers resemble handaxes but with the pointed end truncated away. Flake cleavers have a cutting edge created by a tranchet flake being
Cleaver_(Stone_Age_tool)
In archaeology, a stone artifact left over from toolmaking
nucleus resulting from the detachment of one or more flakes from a lump of source material or tool stone, usually by using a hard hammer precursor such
Lithic_core
Archeological term; material produced during the process of lithic reduction
the production of stone tools and weapons by knapping stone. This assemblage may include the different kinds of lithic flakes and lithic blades, but most
Debitage
core-trimming flakes, the making of a tranchet flake involves removing a flake parallel to the final intended cutting edge of the tool which creates a
Tranchet_flake
Object used to achieve a goal
are "flake stone tools". Tools are the most important items that the ancient humans used to climb to the top of the food chain; by inventing tools, they
Tool
stone flake after the ventral surface has been created. It can be done to the edge of an implement in order to make it into a functional tool, or to
Retouch_(lithics)
Stone tool
the hand axe was not itself a tool, but a large lithic core from which flakes had been removed and used as tools (flake core theory). On the other hand
Hand_axe
Earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic
bifacial handaxes and cleavers, but also includes flake tools, microliths and other chopping tools. Most were made from quartzite. The Madrasian was named
Lower_Paleolithic
Prehistoric archaeological culture of the Indian subcontinent
bifacial handaxes and cleavers, but also includes flake tools, microliths and other chopping tools. Most were made from quartzite. The Madrasian was named
Madrasian_culture
Archaeological site in California, United States
in freshwater limestone). The stone tools of these industries, along with preforms, lithic core, technical flakes, and pieces of angular debitage, mainly
Calico_Early_Man_Site
Japanese late Paleolithic archaeological site
blades, side and end scrapers, cores, and flakes were also found. All of the artifacts excavated were stone tools made from shale, including large stone
Tarukishi_Site
Prehistoric tool type
have been shaped due to their use. Tool base: Scrapers are classified based on if they originated from a blade or a flake. Number of working edges: Some scrapers
Scraper_(archaeology)
Period in African prehistory
tool industries, also known as pebble tool industries Mode 2: Tools made through bifacial reduction produced from large flakes or cores Mode 3: Flake
Late_Stone_Age
Classification term given to the first peoples who entered the American continents
Americas. Archeologists and anthropologists use surviving crafted lithic flaked tools to classify cultural periods. Paleoindians lived alongside and hunted
Paleo-Indians
Type of stone tool
tool found in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Usually naturally occurring rather flat pebbles were used to produce a chopping tool. At one end flakes were
Chopping_tool
Village in South West, Somalia
is characterized by distinctive pressure-flaked tools like prismatic and single to multiple platform flake/blade cores, occasional Levallois and disc
Buur_Heybe
Scientific analysis of chipped stone artifacts
intentionality and process. Ground stone generally refers to any tool made by a combination of flaking, pecking, pounding, grinding, drilling, and incising, and
Lithic_analysis
Prehistoric stone tool
strike off lithic flakes from a lump of tool stone during the process of lithic reduction. The hammerstone is a rather universal stone tool which appeared
Hammerstone
Venezuela prior to European Colonization
known inhabitants of the Venezuelan area in the form of leaf-shaped flake tools, together with chopping and plano–convex scraping implements exposed
Pre-Columbian period in Venezuela
Pre-Columbian_period_in_Venezuela
sometimes even fly short distances carrying the bark flake in their beak. The evolutionary origin of this tool use might be related to these birds frequently
Tool_use_by_non-human_animals
presence of discoidals and cogged stones a predominance of grinding tools over flaked tools a predominance of deep basin metates over slab metates a predominance
Pauma_Complex
rather variably defined, and the uses of the flakes probably varied considerably, with many being all-purpose tools, and perhaps weapons. Some were probably
Bann_flake
American archaeologist (1948–2017)
conclusion was that flakes themselves were the desired tool in lithic reduction, which was supported by their identification of flakes used for butchery
Lawrence_H._Keeley
Topics referred to by the same term
stone tools Lithic analysis, the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts Lithic core, the part of a stone which has had flakes removed
Lithic
consists almost exclusively of large core tools, unifacially flaked pebble tools and hammerstones". The tools are very heavy, averaging around 900 grams
Kartan_industry
Type of flint tool
Ksar Akil Flake is an oval type of Lithic flake with fine, regular teeth at frequent intervals. The flint tool is named after the archaeological site of
Ksar_Akil_flake
Type of edged stone tool
A tranchet axe is a lithic tool made by removing a flake, known as a tranchet flake, from a larger stone. The flake is removed parallel to the final intended
Tranchet_axe
City in Annaba Province, Algeria
prehistoric Algeria was the site of the most advanced development of flake-tool techniques in the Middle Early Stone Age (Middle Paleolithic). The town
Annaba
Prehistoric period in the Americas
Americas. The stage derived its name from the first appearance of flaked stone tools. The term Paleo-Indian is an alternative, generally indicating much
Lithic_stage
Ancient production techniques
exhausted cores. As such, it is typically the flakes, or debitage, that are the basis for stone tools. The flakes are shaped using the lithic reduction techniques
Lithic_technology
a flake removed from a lithic flake's bulb of force, which is a lump left on the ventral surface of a flake after it is detached from a core of tool stone
Eraillure
Paleo-Indian male infant remains found in Montana, US
stages of manufacture, bifaces, flake tools and bifacial cores from which flakes could be struck to make cutting tools. The projectile points were identified
Anzick-1
British archaeologist
demonstrating its use to facilitate trade before being later adopted as an imperial tool by the Mauryans. The Allchins were also pivotal in promoting and facilitating
Raymond_Allchin
for cutting (hand axe, chopper, adze and celt), scrape or chop (flake tool), and tools to pound, pierce, roll, pull and lever were made and used. As building
History_of_construction
Topics referred to by the same term
(engraving), a tool with a narrow sharp face at the tip used for engraving and other purposes Burin (lithic flake), a type of Stone Age tool with a chisel-like
Burin
Book by Ivan Illich
definition of 'tools' is broad and "include[s] among tools productive institutions such as factories that produce tangible commodities like corn flakes or electric
Tools_for_Conviviality
Archaeological culture
assemblages generally comprise choppers, discoids, scrapers, cores, and flake-type tools, all occurring in varying typo-technological frequencies at different
Soanian
Prehistoric inhabitants in Japan
buried in this fashion. Some of them had fist-sized circular pebbles or flaking tools in them. Most graves did not contain grave goods. For those that had
Jōmon_people
Neolithic–Eneolithic archaeological culture of southeastern Europe
material for stone tools, but a number of other types are known to have been used, including chert, jasper and obsidian. Presumably these tools were hafted with
Cucuteni–Trypillia_culture
scrapers. They are flake tools that have experienced unifacial wear. Uncompahgre scrapers are often created on large percussion flakes and tend to only
Vail_Pass_Camp
Kenyan archaeological site dated to 3.3 million years ago
Analysis suggested the cores had been rotated as flakes were struck off. The purpose of the tools found at Lomekwi 3 is unclear, as animal bones found
Lomekwi
Green natural glass possibly formed by a meteorite impact
prehistoric people in the Czech Republic and Austria and were used to make flaked tools. Some of the worked moldavites date to the Aurignacian period of the
Moldavite
Type of stone tool
stone tool created during lithic reduction by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core. Lithic blades are generally defined as being flakes that
Lithic_blade
Archaeological culture in Southeast Asia
generally unifacial flaked tool tradition made primarily on water rounded pebbles and large flakes detached from these pebbles Core tools ("Sumatraliths")
Hoabinhian
American Paleolithic archaeologist
Lithic Curation: An Experimental Test of Dibble and Pelcin's Original Flake-Tool Mass Predictor", by Zachary J. Davis and John J. Shea". Journal of Archaeological
Harold_L._Dibble
Means of producing stone tools
stone tools by first preparing common stone cores into shapes that lend themselves to knapping off flakes that closely resemble the desired tool and require
Prepared-core_technique
Late Neolithic archaeological culture of the Southern Levant
the upper neck to its shoulders. Its lithic industry is dominated by flake tools, including several characteristic types of arrowheads (Haparsa, Nizzanim
Lodian_culture
Period in African prehistory
as Levallois tools, flakes, flaked tools, pointed flakes, smaller bifaces that are projectile in form, and, on rare occasions, hafted tools. Evidence of
Middle_Stone_Age
Analysis of traces of use in archeology
can cause a flake to detach and create damage. In addition to flake scars, abrasion, edge rounding, and striations occurring after tool use, one must
Use-wear_analysis
Tool for making rolled oats
A grain flaker (also oat roller or flaking mill) is a tool for flattening whole-seed cereal grains. When this is done with oats, the seed form, called
Grain_flaker
Type of stone tool
pebble tool with an irregular cutting edge formed through the removal of flakes from one side of a stone. Choppers are crude forms of stone tool and are
Chopper_(archaeology)
Oldest modern human remains from the Philippines
been a kind of Stone Age factory, with both finished stone flake tools and waste core flakes having been found at four separate levels in the main chamber
Tabon_Man
Characteristic in archaeology
detach the flake, and upon the type of material used as a fabricator. The bulb of applied force can indicate the mass or density of the tool used in the
Bulb_of_applied_force
where hominin tools have been found. It includes sites where compelling evidence of hominin tool use has been found, even if no actual tools have been found
List_of_earliest_tools
First stage of the Upper Paleolithic
spread of 'core & flakes'. Although there is a sharp border between core/flake-based tools in Northern China and nearby blade-based tools in Mongolia, the
Initial_Upper_Paleolithic
Archaeological site in western Idaho, USA
horizontal position, and 9 other lithic tools (one large uniface, three blades, two lithic cores, two modified flake tools, and a hammerstone). The points were
Cooper's_Ferry_site
Fossilized hominid footprints in Norfolk, England
flint tools, mostly cores, flakes, and flake tools, were excavated from the foreshore in sediment dating back to up to 950,000 years ago. The tools are
Happisburgh_footprints
Tool created from bone
points, needles, awls, and fish hooks. Other bone tools include spoons, knives, pins, needles, flakers, hide scrapers, and reamers.[citation needed] Musical
Bone_tool
Crystalline form of carbon
can be classified as either amorphous (microcrystalline) or crystalline (flake or lump/chip) which is determined by the ore morphology, crystallinity,
Graphite
Type of flint tool
flint tool made by prehistoric peoples. The racloir is a type of side scraper distinctive of Mousterian assemblages. It is created from a flint flake and
Racloir
efficient tools for use in human settlements. Stone tools have been instrumental in many parts of Nigeria. Two key types of stone tools are flake tools and
Archaeology_of_Nsukka
Type of stone tool
archaeologists found that using denticulate tools "seem to provide more control when working wood than a raw flake or even a scraper might", because they hold
Denticulate_tool
History of the Philippines before 900
excavation led to discovery of ancient artifacts like flake tools, polished stones, earthenware shards, bone tools and some animal remains. These remains and artifacts
Prehistory_of_the_Philippines
Prehistoric people in the Upper Nile Valley
are their stone tools, flakes, and a multitude of rock paintings. The Halfan industry is characterized by three main tools: Halfa flakes, backed microflakes
Halfan_culture
known inhabitants of the Venezuelan area in the form of leaf-shaped flake tools, together with chopping and scraping implements exposed on the high riverine
Indigenous peoples in Venezuela
Indigenous_peoples_in_Venezuela
Hominid fossil cave in Gauteng, South Africa
Pictured are a hammerstone, an unknown object made of shale, and quartz flake tools Megantereon jaw (A type of sabre-toothed cat) from Cooper's "9/2/233/0024
Cooper's_Cave
Relics in Pyongyang, North Korea
Pleistocene". The tools are described as a biface, a trapezoidal heavy tool, a heavy point, a large flake tool and a hammer stone. The stone tools are made of
Komun_Moru
Form of cremation
such as Treblinka. Worked antler and bone objects, along with flint and flake tools, and copper-alloys are most commonly found in pyre cremation remains
Pyre
Archaeological site in Wyoming, U.S.
Columbian mammoth and a chipped stone flake tool and two flakes, both in situ and a possible hammerstone. Seven more flakes were recovered from the transport
La_Prele_Mammoth_Site
Crescent or moon-shaped microlith
lithic reduction, a lunate flake is a small, crescent-shaped flake removed from a stone tool during the process of pressure flaking. In the Natufian period
Lunate_(microlith)
Ethnic group in the Philippines
550 BC. Flake tools made of stone were found in the caves along the Basey River as proof of human existence during those times. These tools were used
Waray_people
Indigenous peoples of Sulawesi
between 10 and 40 cm in depth, contained projectile points, Maros point flake tools with retouched serrated edges, plus bladelets and bone points. A major
Toalean_culture
Archaeological period, last part of the Stone Age (New Stone Age)
tools, in contrast to the flaked stone tools used during the Paleolithic era. Neolithic people were skilled farmers, manufacturing a range of tools necessary
Neolithic
tools discovered here are of two types, core tools and flake tools. The quantity of the flake tools (77.7%) is much higher than those of core tools (22
Prehistory_of_Manipur
Archaeological site in Japan
River. Excavations discovered two concentrations of stone tools, a gravel pit with lithic flakes, and the traces of one pit dwelling from a stratum 2.5 meters
Tanamukaihara
It includes traces of occupation by anatomically modern humans, stone flake tools from the Middle Paleolithic, stone blades from the Upper Paleolithic
List of World Heritage Sites in Libya
List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Libya
Monument protecting significant sites of ancient Native Americans
deposited during the Cretaceous Period (about 95 million years ago). Flaked tools have been made from chert clasts extracted from the conglomerate (Gerhardt
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
Canyons_of_the_Ancients_National_Monument
Ecoregion in Luzon, the Philippines
25,000 years ago, was found in Callao Cave. Evidence included chert flake tools, charred parenchymatous tissues, starch grains, grasses, and Moraceae
Luzon_rain_forests
Ireland until c. 400 AD
microlith blades and points, and later larger stone tools and weapons, in particular the versatile Bann flake. Many areas of Europe entered the Neolithic (New
Prehistoric_Ireland
Archaeological site in Kalinga, Philippines
years old. The recovered artifacts consisted of flake tools, lithic cores, and hammerstones. Flakes were sourced from dacite (a volcanic rock) as well
Rizal_Archaeological_Site
150 stone artifacts —handaxes, cleavers, a pick, choppers, and smaller flake tools — made of limestone, igneous rocks, and sandstone have been found at
Ganj_Par
Paleolithic artifact from Congo
Settlement" of Ishango in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a bone tool and possible mathematical device that dates to the Upper Paleolithic era
Ishango_bone
Characteristic in lithic reduction
end of a lithic flake detaches from a core (Andrefsky 1998:18). Common types include: Step/snap termination – these occur when a flake snaps or breaks
Termination_type
County in northwest Taiwan in the 1980s. The assemblage consists of flake tools, becoming smaller and more standardized over time, and indicating a shift
Prehistory_of_Taiwan
Stone tools, particularly projectile points and scrapers, are the primary evidence of early human activity in the Americas. Crafted lithic flaked tools are
History_of_North_America
Cave and archaeological site in the Philippines
such as chert flake tools, chips, chunks, waste flakes and core as well as andesite flake tools, chips, chunks, cobble tools, waste flakes and earthenware
Minori_Cave
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