enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Levallois technique - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levallois_technique

   Production of points & spearheads from a flint stone core, Levallois technique, Mousterian culture, Tabun Cave, Israel, 250,000–50,000 BP. Israel Museum The Levallois technique of flint- knapping The Levallois technique ( IPA: [lə.va.lwa] ) is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of stone knapping developed around 250,000 to ...

3. Knapping - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapping

   Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.

4. Stone tool - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool

   Stone has been used to make a wide variety of tools throughout history, including arrowheads, spearheads, hand axes, and querns. Knapped stone tools are nearly ubiquitous in pre-metal-using societies because they are easily manufactured, the tool stone raw material is usually plentiful, and they are easy to transport and sharpen.

5. Lithic reduction - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithic_reduction

   The Levallois technique of flint-knapping. In archaeology, in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts.

6. Tranchet flake - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranchet_flake

   Knapping freehand allows for greater control while supporting the core against the leg makes the work easier. The technique used to make the tranchet flake was used in the making of other tools as well, including tranchet axes (characterized by their trapezoidal or triangular shape) adzes, and even tranchet arrowheads. Unlike chisel arrowheads ...

7. Flake tool - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake_tool

   These tools were able to be made by this "chipping" away effect due to the natural characteristic of stone. Stone is able to break apart when struck near the edge. Flake tools are created through flint knapping, a process of producing stone tools using lithic reduction.

8. Microlith - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlith

   A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from around 35,000 years ago, across Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowheads.

9. Solutrean - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean

   Knapping was done using antler batons, hardwood batons and soft stone hammers. This method permitted the working of delicate slivers of flint to make light projectiles and even elaborate barbed and tanged arrowheads. Large thin spearheads; scrapers with edge not on the side but on the end; flint knives and saws, but all still chipped, not ...