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    Prepared-core technique The prepared-core technique is a means of producing stone tools by first preparing common stone cores into shapes that lend themselves...
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    The technique was more sophisticated than earlier methods of lithic reduction, involving the striking of lithic flakes from a prepared lithic core. A striking...
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    archaeology, a lithic core is a distinctive artifact that results from the practice of lithic reduction. In this sense, a core is the scarred nucleus...
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    social structures and behaviour appear to grow more complex, with prepared-core technique lithics, earliest instances of burial and changes to hunting-gathering...
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    tool-making technique known as the prepared-core technique, which was more elaborate than previous Acheulean techniques. This technique increased efficiency...
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    points constitute the industry; sometimes a Levallois technique or another prepared-core technique was employed in making the flint flakes. Le Moustier...
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  • the Levallois technique to produce smaller and sharper knife-like tools as well as scrapers. Also known as the "prepared core technique", flakes are struck...
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    upper boundary). The proposed section is the North Greenland Ice Core Project ice core 75° 06' N 42° 18' W. The lower boundary of the Pleistocene Series...
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    technique, flakes may appear to have two points of percussion, on opposite ends, because the core has been fractured by a hammer and anvil technique....
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    followed the Stone Age, as well as to describe cultures that had developed techniques and technologies for working copper alloys (bronze: originally copper...
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    Darius I of Persia (r. 522 – 486 BC). The split tally became a prevalent technique in medieval Europe, a time characterised by a scarcity of coinage and...
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  • what is called a preform, which is the core of the tool in need of more detailed refinements. The next technique allows for an increased level of detail;...
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    (presumably) displayed. The lithic industry is based on blades struck from regular cores. Sickle-blades and arrowheads continue traditions from the late Natufian...
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    kilograms (14 lb) and was 8.9 centimeters (3.5 in) in diameter. The core was prepared for shipment to the Pacific Theater as part of the third nuclear weapon...
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    saw the introduction of the prepared-core technique, where multiple blades could be rapidly formed from a single core stone. Pressure flaking, in which...
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