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    In archaeology a chopping tool is a stone tool. Stone tools are usually dated by determining the age of the find context e.g. by carbon-14 dating and potassium–argon...
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  • serves multiple purposes as a melee weapon and also as a regular cutting/chopping tool throughout most of South Asia. The kukri, khukri, and kukkri spellings...
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  • Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age...
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    elaborated chopping tools and partial hand axes are linked and it is often difficult to distinguish between them. The concept of chopping tools is based...
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    a lifetime supply of chocolate. Initially, Nestlé included a small chopping tool with the chocolate bars. In 1941, Nestlé and at least one of its competitors...
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    tribes of Mindanao, Philippines. It was also used as an agricultural or chopping tool. It ranges in size from 60 to 120 cm (2 to 4 ft) and usually 85 cm (33 in)...
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    site lacks sophisticated choppers, hand axes, or any other complex chopping tool characteristic of the Acheulean of Western Eurasian and African sites...
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    Stone Age (section Tools)
    more sophisticated Lower Paleolithic tradition, known as the Chopper chopping tool industry, is widely distributed in the Eastern Hemisphere. This tradition...
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    shape, and was initially intended for artillerymen and engineers as a chopping tool as well as a weapon. Towards the end of World War I, the 250 mm (9.8 in)...
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  • Chopped is an American reality-based cooking television game show series created by Michael Krupat, Dave Noll and Linda Lea. It is hosted by Ted Allen...
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    Homo erectus (category Tool-using mammals)
    Movius in 1948, who drew the "Movius Line", dividing the East into a "chopping-tool culture" and the West into a "hand axe culture". Movius took this as...
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    Mattock (category Mechanical hand tools)
    A mattock (/ˈmætək/) is a hand tool used for digging, prying, and chopping. Similar to the pickaxe, it has a long handle and a stout head which combines...
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    Area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, features a collection with remnants of tools that document the development and use of transitional technology. The indigenous...
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  • Its name is a shortened version of the word pang-tabas, which means "chopping tool." Its length varies from two to four feet, and can be wielded with one...
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    Batoning (section Tools)
    wood.[citation needed] The technique is also especially useful when a chopping tool is not available. Care must be taken to avoid damage to the knife. Breakage...
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    bifacial handaxes and cleavers, but also includes flake tools, microliths and other chopping tools. Most were made from quartzite. The Madrasian was named...
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    timber framers. Twybil – Hand tool used for chopping out mortises in green woodworking Barlow, Ronald (1985). The Antique Tool Collector's Guide to Value...
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  • bifacial handaxes and cleavers, but also includes flake tools, microliths and other chopping tools. Most were made from quartzite. The Madrasian was named...
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    They were tool users rather than tool manufacturers. The next major evolutionary step occurred around 2.3 million BCE, when primitive stone tools were used...
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    Line" in 1948, dividing the East (mainly considering Zhoukoudian tools) into a "chopping-tool culture" and the West into a "hand axe culture". [T]his area...
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    there 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...
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    Acheulean (redirect from Achulean Tools)
    (referring to the shapes of the final tool), cleavers, retouched flakes, scrapers, and segmental chopping tools. Materials used were determined by available...
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    A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural and horticultural hand tool used to shape soil, remove weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops. Shaping...
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    katti is mostly a chopping tool, a very common weapon found worldwide. It was used for clearing the forest, as an agricultural tool, as well as melee...
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    less formal implements known as chopping tools. The most noticeable difference were the lack of Acheulean/Mode 2 tools in East Asia. These were sometimes...
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    Pickaxe (redirect from Pick (tool))
    hoeing, skimming, and chopping through roots. Developed as agricultural tools in prehistoric times, picks have evolved into other tools such as the plough...
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    The Pulaski is a specialty hand tool used in fighting fires, particularly wildfires, which combines an axe and an adze in one head. Similar to a cutter...
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    Paleolithic (section Tools)
    disagreement about their use. Interpretations range from cutting and chopping tools, to digging implements, to flaking cores, to the use in traps, and as...
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    engineering tools include safe use of: driving tools and chopping tools (hammers, mauls, sledges, screwdriver, and bits) cutting tools and smoothing tools (saws...
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    Tool use by non-humans is a phenomenon in which a non-human animal uses any kind of tool in order to achieve a goal such as acquiring food and water, grooming...
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