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2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington ...

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   Location of Washington County in Vermont. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Vermont.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Vermont, United States.

3. Stone tool - Wikipedia

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   Stone axes from 35,000 years ago are the earliest known use of a stone tool in Australia. Other stone tools varied in type and use among various Aboriginal Australian peoples, dependent on geographical regions and the type and structure of the tools varied among the different cultural and linguistic groups. The locations of the various ...

4. Lithic technology - Wikipedia

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   The earliest stone tools to date have been found at the site of Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) in Kenya and they have been dated to around 3.3 million years ago. [1] The archaeological record of lithic technology is divided into three major time periods: the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), and Neolithic (New Stone Age).

5. Grand Meadow Quarry Archeological District - Wikipedia

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   The principal site within the District is the Grand Meadow Chert Quarry (GMCQ), originally a sprawling landscape of an estimated 2,000 pits dug over many centuries using handheld tools to reach a layer of high-quality gray chert (or "flint"). Even though the District is now predominantly obscured by plowed farmland and roadways, a pristine 8 ...

6. List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

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   Stone tools Oldowan stone tools. May very well be earliest evidence of seafaring. Kozarnika, Dimovo Municipality [49] 1.4-1.6 Bulgaria Eastern Europe H. erectus (associated) Stone tools, hominin remains, cut marks on bone Pirro Nord [50] 1.3-1.6 [51] Italy Western Europe Stone tools Sterkfontein Member 5 [52] 1.1-1.6 South Africa Southern Africa

7. Industry (archaeology) - Wikipedia

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   In the archaeology of the Stone Age, an industry or technocomplex [1] is a typological classification of stone tools. An industry consists of a number of lithic assemblages , typically including a range of different types of tools, that are grouped together on the basis of shared technological or morphological characteristics. [ 2 ]

8. Oldowan - Wikipedia

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   Tools made from bone, wood, or other organic materials were therefore in all probability used before the Oldowan. [15] Oldowan stone tools are simply the oldest recognisable tools which have been preserved in the archaeological record. [16] There is a flourishing of Oldowan tools in eastern Africa, spreading to southern Africa, between 2.4 and ...

9. Lewis (lifting appliance) - Wikipedia

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   Lifting the stone a small distance from the ground before hoisting is the best way to test a lewis. Any sign of looseness or damage should be corrected by adjusting the lewis hole or packing the lewis with metal shims. To bed a stone using a lewis, the stone is placed on dunnage laid flat with enough clearance for a mortar bed to be placed ...