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flakes: Encyclopedia - Chert

Chert is a fine-grained silica-rich cryptocrystalline sedimentary rock that may contain small fossils. It varies greatly in color from white to black, but most often manifests as gray, brown, grayish brown and light green to rusty red; its color is an expression of trace elements present in the rock, and both red and green are most often related to traces of iron (in its oxidized and reduced forms respectively). Jasper is basically chert which ...

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Chert - Chert and Precambrian fossils

Chert - Chert and flint: archaeological and historical uses

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flakes: Encyclopedia - Chipped stone

In archaeology, chipped stone refers to a method of manufacturing stone tools through lithic reduction, wherein lithic flakes are struck off a mass of tool stone with a percussor. The intention is usually either to produce a tool from the remainder of the lithic core after the extraneous material has been removed, or to produce flakes that can be further modified and refined by methods such as trimming and pressure flaking. Other related archivesarchaeology, flakes, lithic core, lithic flakes

flakes: Encyclopedia - Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly it dates to between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago. Modern humans (i.e. Homo sapiens sapiens), emerged around 100,000 years ago and began migrating out of Africa during the Middle Paleolithic period. Until around 40,000 years ago, the lifestyle of the humans changed little from that of their predecessors. But then, relatively suddenly, they be ...

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Upper Paleolithic - Events

flakes: Encyclopedia - Aurignacian

Aurignacian is the name of a culture of the Upper Palaeolithic present in Europe and south west Asia. It dates to between 34,000 and 23,000 BP. The name originates from the type site of Aurignac in the Haute Garonne area of France Worked bone points with grooves cut in the bottom and some of the earliest cave art were produced by the Aurignacian culture. Their flint tools were more varied than those of earlier industries, employing finer blades struck from prepared cores rather than using crude flakes, and they made pendants, b ...

flakes: Encyclopedia - Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been investigated using the discipline of archaeology. Beyond this, the definition and geographical extent of a 'site' can vary widely, depending on the period studied and the theoretical approach of the archaeologist. It is almost invariably difficult to delimit a site. It is sometimes taken to indicate a settlement of some sort al ...

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Archaeological site - Lists of sites

flakes: Encyclopedia - Stone Age

The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric time period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking. Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone. For example, flint and chert were shaped (or chipped) for use as cutting tools and weapons, while basalt and sandstone were used for ground stone tools, such as quern-stones. Wood, bone, shell, antler and other materials were widely used, too. During the most recent part of the period, sediments (like clay) were used to make pottery. A series of metal technology innovations characterize the later Cha ...

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Stone Age - The Stone Age in archaeology

Stone Age - Modern use of the term

Stone Age - Human development during the Stone Age

Stone Age - Palaeolithic

Stone Age - Epipalaeolithic/Mesolithic

Stone Age - Neolithic

Stone Age - Stone Age material culture

Stone Age - Food and drink

Stone Age - Shelters and habitats

Stone Age - Art

Stone Age - Stone Age rituals and beliefs

Stone Age - Remnants of Stone Age living in modern times

Stone Age - The Stone Age in popular culture

Stone Age - Notes

flakes: Encyclopedia - Acheulean

Acheulean (also spelt Acheulian, pronounced ACH-OOL-IAN or ACH-OO-LAY-AN) is the name of an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture mainly associated with prehistoric hominines during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and south western Asia and Europe. Around one million years ago, it was Acheulean tool users who left Africa to first successfully colonise Eurasia[1] and their distinctive oval and pear-shaped handaxes ha ...

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Acheulean - Rediscovery

Acheulean - Dating the Acheulean

Acheulean - Acheulean flint tools

Acheulean - Stages

Acheulean - Manufacture

Acheulean - Use

Acheulean - Distribution

Acheulean - Acheulean tool users

Acheulean - Footnotes

flakes: Encyclopedia - Chopper archaeology

Archaeologists define a chopper as a pebble tool with an irregular cutting edge formed through the removal of flakes from one side of a stone. They are crude forms of stone tool and generally only found in Lower Palaeolithic industries from around 2 million years ago. Later societies used a more advanced implement called a chopping tool, which in some cases was refined into the more efficient handaxe. ...

flakes: Encyclopedia II - Acheulean - Acheulean stone tools

Acheulean - Stages. In the four divisions of prehistoric flint-working developed by Nick Barton [8], Acheulean artefacts are classified as Mode 2, meaning they are more advanced that the (usually earlier) Mode 1 tools of the Clactonian, Oldowan or Abbevillian industries but lacking the sophistication of the (usually later) Mode 3 Middle Palaeolithic fli ...

flakes: Encyclopedia II - History of Norfolk - Palaeolithic

The period from almost three quarters of a million years ago until around 10,000 years ago. During the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods the coast of Norfolk would have been 60-70km futher to the north than today, with much of the North Sea a wide, open plain. The size of the habatitable land would of varried through the different glacial and interglacial periods up till the end of the Anglian glaciation, as would of the climate, flora and fauna, and the general landscape of Norfolk. The Anglian glaciation was the 3rd from last glac ...

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