Tools and Technologies I Prehistoric Cultures Tools and Technologies I

Tools and Technologies bone, tooth, horn / antler lithic (stone)

Tools and Technologies bone, tooth, horn / antler

osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" Keratic = "horn" Glossary osteodontokeratic osteo = "bone" donto = "tooth" Keratic = "horn"

Tools and Technologies bone, tooth, horn / antler lithic (stone)

Stone Tools and Technologies lithic tools basic types basic techniques of manufacture basic tool uses Upper Paleolithic traditions

Glossary Tradition: similarity of elements over considerable time in a delimited area (site or group of sites)

similarity of elements over a large area during a “short” time span Glossary horizon: similarity of elements over a large area during a “short” time span

Stone Tools and Technologies lithic tools basic types basic techniques of manufacture basic tool uses Upper Paleolithic traditions

Stone Tools and Technologies Lithic Tools basic types

pebble tools: Glossary aka “choppers” rounded stone (pebble) struck with a similar stone (hammerstone), which creates a serrated edge, that serves as a chopping edge

Glossary core and flake tools . . .

the smaller piece struck off of a stone Glossary flake: the smaller piece struck off of a stone

what is left over after a flake has been struck off of a stone Glossary core: what is left over after a flake has been struck off of a stone

“biface tradition” = Acheulean Abbevillian Glossary handaxe “biface tradition” = Acheulean Abbevillian

Clactonian (flake) Acheulean (core) Abbevillian (core) Glossary Lower Paleolithic European and African Hand Axes Clactonian (flake) Acheulean (core) Abbevillian (core)

Glossary blade tools a flake tool that is at least twice as long as it is wide a thin-edged fragment removed from a core

having a notched edge or sawlike teeth Glossary serrated: having a notched edge or sawlike teeth

Glossary fluted: with a furrow or groove

Glossary microliths: small stone tools usually produced from narrow blades punched from a core “micro” = “small” “lith” = “stone

made of several parts e.g.s, harpoon, sickle Glossary compound: (composite) made of several parts e.g.s, harpoon, sickle

Glossary hafted: with a “handle”

“spear thrower” (Nahuatl, Aztec) Glossary atlatl: “spear thrower” (Nahuatl, Aztec)

“chopper-chopping [flake] tools” Glossary “chopper-chopping [flake] tools” --

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