1. Tools and Technologies I
Prehistoric Cultures
Tools and Technologies I

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

5. Tools and Technologies
bone, tooth, horn / antler

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

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

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

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

16. 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

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

18. Stone Tools and Technologies
Lithic Tools
basic types

21. 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

25. Glossary
core and flake tools
. . .

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

31. 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

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

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

44. 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

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

54. Glossary
fluted:
with a furrow or groove

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

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

67. Glossary
hafted:
with a “handle”

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

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

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