Microlith A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide. They...

A microlith is a small stone tool from 35,000 to about 3,000 years ago. Microlith may also refer to: Microlith (catalytic reactor) Microlithography Microlithosia...

Microlith is a brand of catalytic reactor invented by engineer William C. Pfefferle. A catalyst is a substance that speeds a reaction but that itself...

cultures. Small stone tools called microliths and retouched bladelets can be found for the first time. The microliths of this culture period differ greatly...

Lunate is a crescent or moon-shaped microlith. In the specialized terminology of lithic reduction, a lunate flake is a small, crescent-shaped flake removed...

Central Africa, western Central Africa, and West Africa, were displaced by microlith-using Late Stone Age Africans (e.g., non-archaic human admixed Late Stone...

Microblade technology is a period of technological microlith development marked by the creation and use of small stone blades, which are produced by chipping...

manufacture of utensils. The usable fragments are basically geometric microliths. This technique has been recorded through the Old World, from at least...

changing environment and find new food sources. The development of Mode 5 (microlith) tools began in response to these changes. They were derived from the...

amateur stone tool collector who had been peddling nattō, discovered a microlith in Iwajuku, Gunma in 1946, which was recognized in 1949 as a Paleolithic...

rather than permanent villages. They made sophisticated stone tools using microliths—small, finely-produced blades that were hafted in wooden implements. These...

ions from the alveolar space back into the bloodstream, and leads to microlith formation. Epithelial deletion of Npt2b in mice results in an authentic...

Meshvo Reservoir. This site dates to the Mauryan period, and a much older microlith site known as Dhek-Vadlo locally was found near Shamlaji. Shamlaji was...

northern Sinai and the Negev has shown that the forms of the Mushabian microliths (mainly curved and arched backed bladelets) and the intensive use of the...

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

first Epipaleolithic culture is the Azilian, also known as microlaminar microlithism in the Mediterranean. This culture is the local evolution of Magdalenian...

fashioned into a variety of tools such as scrapers, knives, sickles, and microliths. Archaeologists classify stone tools into industries (also known as complexes...

same area of the Near East, and closely related to them. Emireh point microlith Emireh point. Archaeology of Israel Zuttiyeh Cave Rose, Jeffrey I.; Marks...

Development of the magdalénian civilisations in Western Europe. Development of microliths in Europe. France: Lascaux Cave, a veritable gallery of rock art, also...

Punch-struck blades that are adapted into a variety of different tools Mode 5: Microlith portions of composite tools that may include wood or bone, often abruptly...

distinguished by A. Melentiev in the 1970s and is characterised by geometric microliths with Helwan retouch. Regional variants of the culture include the Zhekolgan...

perforators, and artifacts with gloss. Heavy duty tools, burins and microliths were also present. Over 7,000 grinding stones have been found, spanning...

the burin and that they could be waste products from the manufacture of microliths, but they may have occasionally been reused for a useful purpose, which...

000 years BC and is distinguished from its predecessors by the use of microliths and small blades. In 1953, J. Desmond Clark found a notable site of Magosian...

western and central Europe. Characteristic artefacts include geometric microliths and backed points on micro-blades. Woodworking tools are notably missing...

district of Jharkhand and Sundergarh district of Odisha. Several Iron slags, microlith, Potsherds have been discovered from Singhbhum district which are from...

assemblage of ostrich eggshell beads and more importantly, the abundance of microlith technology. Because these type artifacts were found within the site it...

allowed access to a wider variety and amount of food sources. For example, microliths or small stone tools or points were invented around 70,000–65,000 BP and...

tool Cleaver Denticulate tool Fire plough Fire-saw Hammerstone Knife Microlith Quern-stone Racloir Rope Scraper side Stone tool Tally stick Weapons Wheel...

environments, using fishing and hunting tools made from wood, bone, and flint microliths. It appears that they had domesticated the dog. Some may have lived settled...