into a functional tool, or to reshape a used tool. Retouch can be a strategy to reuse an existing lithic artifact and enable people to transform one tool...

Look up retouch or retouching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Retouch or retouching may refer to: Retouch (lithics), the work done to a flint implement...

anvil.: 172–3  Natufian lithic technology throughout the usage of the Helwan Retouch was dominated by lunate-shaped lithics, such as picks and axes: 167 ...

(2000), p. 47 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lithic reduction. Andrefsky, W. (2005). Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge...

associated with the initial stages of lithic reduction, while tertiary flakes are more likely to be associated with retouching and bifacial reduction activities...

making lithic flake are actually more social dynamic and with much negotiation between lithic knappers, the common measure attributes, such as retouched scar...

microblades. In these cases, their purpose is interpreted as both a rapid retouch and hafting preparation strategy for blade-based edge tools and bifaces...

materialist/technological approach to classifying tools and implements, cores and retouched flakes". Tool Versus Cores: Alternative Approaches to Stone Tool Analysis:...

bifacially worked knives and unifacially retouched lithic flakes lacking microblades that generally resemble similar lithics found in sites of the Kamchatka Peninsula...

hand axes have been found that have no retouching, perhaps the hand axe was not itself a tool, but a large lithic core from which flakes had been removed...

p. 311. ISBN 0-632-04704-6. Clarke's "punch-struck blades with steep retouch." Cassidy, J., Kononenko, N., Robertson, G., & Raab, L. M. (2019). Microscopic...

typology. It is sometimes hard for typologists to tell whether lithic artefacts were retouched intentionally or unintentionally, for example as a result of...

Neo-Lithics. 2010 (1): 74–76. Kromer, Bernd; Schmidt, Klaus (1998). "Two Radiocarbon Dates from Göbekli Tepe, South Eastern Turkey" (PDF). Neo-Lithics. 1998...

extremely sharp & could easily be repaired. Flake tools could be sharpened by retouch to create scrapers or burins. These tools were either made by flaking off...

intended results of some lithic reduction techniques, and are very desirable for opportunistic tool use that does not require retouching or sharpening. Andrefsky...

Presence of Micoquien hand axes Later assemblages contain endscrapers and retouched blades. In addition to the Szeletian cave in Hungary, assemblages have...

system of providing for themselves. From Wadi Kubbaniya, there have been lithics found that are attributed to the Afian industry. Site E-83-4 has been excavated...

efficiency and retouch potential. The experiment also shows that the Levallois core is an economic optimal strategy of raw material (lithic) usage, which...

include retouched scrapers, unretouched flakes, and a core. The Florisbad Industry assemblage is composed largely of Middle Stone Age lithics that are...

Chalcolithic. This type of lithic artifact was first named by Henri Breuil who defined it as "a type of angular, smooth, with a terminal retouch in the form of a...

extensive pattern. Some unifaces are characterized by systematic edge retouch, which was used to thin, straighten, sharpen, and smooth an artifact's...

Helwan points, sickle-blades with base amenagée or short stem and terminal retouch. Other sites include Sheyk Hasan and Jerf el Ahmar. Sites in "Upper Mesopotamia"...

sites occupants. Stone Age adzes have been found at the site, along with lithics from the Wilton, Albany, Robberg, Howiesons Poort industries. Other notable...

many retouched tools. Bifacial tools and tools indicative of the Aterian industry are also missing from the assemblage. Recent analyses of the lithic assemblages...

bifacial tools, axes and adzes, grinding stones and polished axes and other retouched tools. 4,646 potsherds were collected during excavations in 2005-2006...

located in Member 2. Summaries of the lithic assemblages found during the more recent excavations also consider the lithics found in the initial 1967 excavation...

000 years before present. Border Cave's remains include human remains, lithics, bone tools, botanical remains (i.e. grass bedding) and animal bones. Border...

abrupt retouch). It is also possible to retouch stone tools on the anvil by means of pressure flaking, thus obtaining a regular and monofacial retouched edge...

triangles. There are backed blades as well. A special type of retouch (Helwan retouch) is characteristic for the early Natufian. In the late Natufian...

the Chindadn complex, falling between 13,500 B.P. and 13,000 B.P. The lithics (Stone tools) dated prior to 13,500 B.P. include bifacial tools, blade...