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...

by the removal of flakes, is known as a core.: 254, 258  Once the proper tool stone has been selected, a percussor or pressure flaker (e.g., an antler...

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...

flintknapper makes a tool from the core by reducing it to a rough unifacial or bifacial preform, which is further reduced by using soft hammer flaking or by pressure...

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...

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 over...

specialized stone flake tool with a sharp edge, like a small razor blade. Prismatic blades are flaked from stone cores through pressure flaking or direct percussion...

Some smaller tools were made from large flakes that had been struck from stone cores. These flake tools and the distinctive waste flakes produced in Acheulean...

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...

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...

orange flake tool was collected. In 2017, further orange debitage was found along with bison carpal and teeth fragments, and obsidian flakes, all suggesting...

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...

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...

example of a flake tradition. The early flake industries probably contributed to the development of the Middle Paleolithic flake tools of the Mousterian...

Americas. Archeologists and anthropologists use surviving crafted lithic flaked tools to classify cultural periods. Scientific evidence links Indigenous Americans...

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...

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...

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...

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...

currently being excavated and is yielding artifactual material. The tools and flakes of LMLI and those found in the nested inset known as the Rock Wren...

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...

bifacial handaxes and cleavers, but also includes flake tools, microliths and other chopping tools. Most were made from quartzite. The Madrasian was named...

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...

assemblages generally comprise choppers, discoids, scrapers, cores, and flake-type tools, all occurring in varying typo-technological frequencies at different...

conclusion was that flakes themselves were the desired tool in lithic reduction, which was supported by their identification of flakes used for butchery...

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...

Americas. The stage derived its name from the first appearance of flaked stone tools. The term Paleo-Indian is an alternative, generally indicating much...

site of the highest state of development of Middle Paleolithic Flake tool techniques. Tools of this era, starting about 30,000 BC, are called Aterian (after...

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...

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...