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    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...
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  • 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...
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    cultures. Small stone tools called microliths and retouched bladelets can be found for the first time. The microliths of this culture period differ greatly...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Microblade technology is a period of technological microlith development marked by the creation and use of small stone blades, which are produced by chipping...
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    manufacture of utensils. The usable fragments are basically geometric microliths. This technique has been recorded through the Old World, from at least...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • axe blade made of amphibolite placed by the woman's right arm, and 31 microlith blades stored in a container made from a crane humerus. Two shaped pebbles...
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    ions from the alveolar space back into the bloodstream, and leads to microlith formation. Epithelial deletion of Npt2b in mice results in an authentic...
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    rather than permanent villages. They made sophisticated stone tools using microliths—small, finely-produced blades that were hafted in wooden implements. These...
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  • first Epipaleolithic culture is the Azilian, also known as microlaminar microlithism in the Mediterranean. This culture is the local evolution of Magdalenian...
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    characterized by bifacial handaxes and cleavers, but also includes flake tools, microliths and other chopping tools. Most were made from quartzite. The Madrasian...
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  • fashioned into a variety of tools such as scrapers, knives, sickles, and microliths. Archaeologists classify stone tools into industries (also known as complexes...
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    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...
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    Natufian hunter-gatherer groups, who left a scattering of crescent-shaped microlith tools behind them. Around 9600 BCE, the droughts and cold of the Younger...
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  • Development of the magdalénian civilisations in Western Europe. Development of microliths in Europe. France: Lascaux Cave, a veritable gallery of rock art, also...
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    perforators, and artifacts with gloss. Heavy duty tools, burins and microliths were also present. Over 7,000 grinding stones have been found, spanning...
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  • remains discovered alongside the skeletal fragments include geometric microliths dating to 28,500 BC, which together with some sites in Africa is the earliest...
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  • tail to a pole, terminating in a lotus bud and inserted into a stand Microlith – ancient Egyptian stone flakes Menat – an amulet worn around the neck...
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    utilization – Astronautical use of materials harvested in outer space Microlith (catalytic reactor) – Brand of catalytic reactor Timeline of hydrogen...
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    (2011 census). The hills are some of the oldest in India, geologically. Microliths from early hominids have been found in the district. It is believed that...
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  • western and central Europe. Characteristic artefacts include geometric microliths and backed points on micro-blades. Woodworking tools are notably missing...
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  • recognised of the cave of Zarzi in Iraqi Kurdistan. Here were found plenty of microliths (up to 20% finds). Their forms are short and asymmetric trapezoids, and...
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