A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures...
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archaeology, a tool stone is a type of stone that is used to manufacture stone tools, or tools that use stone as raw material. Generally speaking, tools that require...
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simple tools, only human beings, whose use of stone tools dates back hundreds of millennia, have been observed using tools to make other tools. Early...
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The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The...
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Lower Paleolithic (redirect from Lower Old Stone Age)
the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. It spans the time from around 3.3 million years ago when the first evidence for stone tool production and use by hominins...
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Acheulean (section Acheulean stone tools)
after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand...
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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. People during...
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Oldowan (redirect from Pebble tool)
Oldowan (or Mode I) was a widespread stone tool archaeological industry (style) in prehistory. These early tools were simple, usually made with one or...
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a long, thin, prehistoric, stone or bronze tool similar to an adze, hoe, or axe. A shoe-last celt was a polished stone tool used during the early European...
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forms of hand tools. Portable power tools are not hand tools. Hand tools have been used by humans since the Stone Age when stone tools were used for hammering...
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Paleolithic (redirect from Old Stone Age)
of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology. It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools by...
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type of biface stone tool of the Lower Palaeolithic. Cleavers resemble hand axes in that they are large and oblong or U-shaped tools meant to be held...
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Lithic reduction (redirect from Chipped stone)
in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing...
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Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles. Formed in 1990, the group consists of vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny...
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material, stone work has survived which was created during our prehistory or past time. Work carried out by paleolithic societies to create stone tools is more...
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ground stone is a category of stone tool formed by the grinding of a coarse-grained tool stone, either purposely or incidentally. Ground stone tools are...
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Prehistory (section Stone Age)
history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history...
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Sharpening stones, or whetstones, are used to sharpen the edges of steel tools such as knives through grinding and honing. Such stones come in a wide...
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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. Stone...
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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...
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Sonia Harmand (section Lomekwi 3 stone tools)
1974) is a French archaeologist who studies Early Stone Age archaeology and the evolution of stone tool making. She received her undergraduate degree from...
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Russia, where there was no well-defined Copper Age between the Stone and Bronze ages. Stone tools were still predominantly used during this period. The archaeological...
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Rock (geology) (redirect from Stone)
earliest humans. This early period, called the Stone Age, saw the development of many stone tools. Stone was then used as a major component in the construction...
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Homo heidelbergensis (section Stone tools)
industry, transitional between the Early Stone Age (Acheulian) and the Middle Stone Age. With either method, knappers (tool makers) would have had to have produced...
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the advent of Homo has been taken to coincide with the first use of stone tools (the Oldowan industry), and thus by definition with the beginning of...
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the same crude stone tools. Archaeologist Richard G. Klein, who has worked extensively on ancient stone tools, describes the stone tool kit of archaic...
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earliest Hominina, largely revealed in the production and use of stone tools. Prior to tools, evidence of scavenging and hunting can be noted—highlighted...
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Archaic period in Mesoamerica (section Stone tools)
large areas of land further from residential areas. Recovered stone tools, such as chipped stone adzes, appear to have been used to cut down trees and dig...
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