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    In archaeology, a blade is a type of stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core. This process of reducing the stone and producing...
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  • In archaeology, a prismatic blade is a long, narrow, specialized stone flake tool with a sharp edge, like a small razor blade. Prismatic blades are flaked...
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    A blade is the sharp, cutting portion of a tool, weapon, or machine, specifically designed to puncture, chop, slice, or scrape surfaces or materials....
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  • "Romans in China? - Archaeology Magazine Archive". archive.archaeology.org. Dragon Blade at IMDb Dragon Blade at Metacritic Dragon Blade at Rotten Tomatoes...
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    In prehistoric archaeology, scrapers are unifacial tools thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking. Many lithic analysts maintain that...
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    piercing tools, and it has been used experimentally as surgical scalpel blades. The Natural History by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder includes a few...
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    humans Bone tool Spear#Prehistory Prepared-core technique Blade (archaeology) Chopper (archaeology) Cleaver (tool) Tool stone Lithic flake Lithic core Lithic...
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    selected for their color rather than their chemical composition. In archaeology therefore, having a loosely applied general term is at least partially...
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  • This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y...
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  • dagger, is an iron-bladed dagger from the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1334–1325 BC). As the blade composition and homogeneity...
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    Experimental archaeology (also called experiment archaeology) is a field of study which attempts to generate and test archaeological hypotheses, usually...
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    Burin (lithic flake) (category Archaeological artefact types)
    In archaeology and the field of lithic reduction, a burin /ˈbjuːrɪn/ (from the French burin, meaning "cold chisel" or modern engraving burin) is a type...
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  • Sword (category Blade weapons)
    A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be...
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    Clovis culture (category Archaeology of the United States)
    Collins, Michael B. (1999). Clovis Blade technology: a comparative study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas. Texas archaeology and ethnohistory series. Austin...
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    Razor (redirect from Razor blade)
    A razor is a bladed tool primarily used in the removal of body hair through the act of shaving. Kinds of razors include straight razors, safety razors...
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  • the beginning of the Iron Age is defined locally around the world by archaeological convention when the production of smelted iron (especially steel tools...
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    "Microscopic Striations on Flint Sickle-Blades as an Indication of Plant Cultivation: Preliminary Results". World Archaeology. 17 (1): 121–6. doi:10.1080/00438243...
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    archaeology to locate and excavate all subsurface dirt.[citation needed] In the Neolithic age and earlier, a large animal's scapula (shoulder blade)...
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  • 2–2.0 cm (0.5–0.8 in) wide, and relatively thin. Archaeological experiments show that these blades were made with a copper indenter and functioned as...
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  • The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future is a 1987 book by Riane Eisler. The author presents a conceptual framework for studying social systems...
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    arrowheads. Microliths are produced from either a small blade (microblade) or a larger blade-like piece of flint by abrupt or truncated retouching, which...
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    In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,": 255  and may also be referred to as...
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    A Canaanean blade is an archaeological term for a long, wide blade made out of stone or flint, predominantly found at sites in Israel and Lebanon (ancient...
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    Iñupiat style ulu, the blade has a centre piece cut out and both ends of the blade fit into the handle. In Canada, the blade more often is attached to...
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    It splits the wood into two parts by the pressure concentration at the blade. The handle of the axe also acts as a lever allowing the user to increase...
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    Bronze Age sword (category Archaeological artefact types)
    Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science 17, 27–35 (2010). "Typologically, the swords from Nebra and Vreta belong to the Sögel blades, which copy the shape...
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    Rhomphaia (category Blade weapons)
    similar to the falx, most archaeological evidence suggests that rhomphaias were forged with straight or slightly curved blades, presumably to enable their...
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    Ricasso (category Blade weapons)
    ricasso is an unsharpened length of blade just above the guard or handle on a knife, dagger, sword, or bayonet. Blades designed this way appear at many periods...
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  • Kamen Rider Blade (仮面ライダー剣(ブレイド), Kamen Raidā Bureido, English title at logo is Masked Rider ♠ ), is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series...
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    Rapier (section Blade)
    designate a sword with a straight, slender and sharply pointed two-edged long blade wielded in one hand. It was widely popular in Western Europe throughout...
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