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  2. Use-wear analysis - Wikipedia

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    This may require flint-knapping a tool comparable to the artifact under analysis, which can be long process dependent on personal ability, or buying such a tool. Also, the replication of tool use requires comparable source material (for tool creation) as well as access to the material the tool was used on.

  3. Talk:Flint tool - Wikipedia

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  4. Retouch (lithics) - Wikipedia

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    Retouch can be a strategy to reuse an existing lithic artifact and enable people to transform one tool into another tool. [2] Depending on the form of classification that one uses, it may be argued that retouch can also be conducted on a core-tool, if such a category exists, such as a hand-axe .

  5. Flint tools - Wikipedia

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  6. Clactonian - Wikipedia

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    The Clactonian is the name given by archaeologists to an industry of European flint tool manufacture that dates to the early part of the Hoxnian Interglacial (corresponding to the global Marine Isotope Stage 11 and the continental Holstein Interglacial) around 424–415,000 years ago. [1] Clactonian tools were made by Homo heidelbergensis. [2]

  7. Burin (lithic flake) - Wikipedia

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    Burin from the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) (ca. 29,000–22,000 BP). In archaeology and the field of lithic reduction, a burin / ˈ b juː r ɪ n / (from the French burin, meaning "cold chisel" or modern engraving burin) is a type of stone tool, a handheld lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which prehistoric humans used for carving or finishing wood or bone tools or weapons, and sometimes ...

  8. York Hoard - Wikipedia

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    The worked flint tools were given to Charles Monkman of Malton, and the flakes were used as ballast for the train line. [1] Allen acquired some of the axes and spearheads from one of the workmen. Twenty objects from the hoard remain in the collection of the Yorkshire Museum : 7 axeheads, 3 arrowheads, 9 spearheads, 3 scrapers, 11 blades and ...

  9. Solutrean - Wikipedia

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    The Solutrean / s ə ˈ lj uː t r i ə n / industry is a relatively advanced flint tool-making style of the Upper Paleolithic of the Final Gravettian, from around 22,000 to 17,000 BP. Solutrean sites have been found in modern-day France, Spain and Portugal.