Behavioral modernity, Atlatl, Origin of the domestic dog
Epipalaeolithic
Natufian
Mesolithic
Microliths, Bow and Arrows, Canoes
Tahunian
Heavy Neolithic
Shepherd Neolithic
Trihedral Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Neolithic
Neolithic Revolution Domestication
Khiamian culture
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Pottery
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In archaeology, lithic technology includes a broad array of techniques used to produce usable tools from various types of stone. 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). Not all cultures in all parts of the world exhibit the same pattern of lithic technological development, and stone tool technology continues to be used to this day, but these three time periods represent the span of the archaeological record when lithic technology was paramount. By analysing modern stone tool usage within an ethnoarchaeological context, insight into the breadth of factors influencing lithic technologies in general may be studied.[2] See: Stone tool. For example, for the Gamo of Southern Ethiopia, political, environmental, and social factors influence the patterns of technology variation in different subgroups of the Gamo culture; through understanding the relationship between these different factors in a modern context, archaeologists can better understand the ways that these factors could have shaped the technological variation that is present in the archaeological record.[2]
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^ abWeedman, Kathryn (2006). "An ethnoarchaeological study of hafting and stone tool diversity among the Gamo of Ethiopia". Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 13 (3): 198–238. doi:10.1007/s10816-006-9010-4. JSTOR 20177539.
In archaeology, lithictechnology includes a broad array of techniques used to produce usable tools from various types of stone. The earliest stone tools...
wood, bone or antler), or a wood or antler punch to detach lithic flakes from the lithic core. As flakes are detached in sequence, the original mass...
be removed from polyhedral blade cores, another common lithic feature of Paleo-Indian lithic culture. Prismatic blades are often triangular in cross...
lithic analysis is the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts using basic scientific techniques. At its most basic level, lithic analyses...
industry Lithictechnology Manuport Mount William stone axe quarry Prismatic blade Sillitoe, Paul; Hardy, Karen (2 January 2015). "Living Lithics: ethnoarchaeology...
Look up lithic or lithics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lithic may refer to: Relating to stone tools Lithic analysis, the analysis of stone tools...
In archaeology, a lithic core is a distinctive artifact that results from the practice of lithic reduction. In this sense, a core is the scarred nucleus...
may include wood or bone, often abruptly retouched or backed The lithictechnologies of the Later Stone Age often fall into Modes 4 and 5. They have been...
that figs were the first cultivated crop and mark the invention of the technology of farming. This occurred centuries before the first cultivation of grains...
site excavation and lithic classification was, until recently, lacking. Unlike northern Africa, shifts between lithictechnologies were not nearly as pronounced...
stones like chert, quartz, or obsidian. Blades are a specialized type of lithic flake that are at least twice as long as they are wide. An alternate method...
their unique lithic technique, migrated to North America along pack ice in the Atlantic Ocean. Once they made it to North America, their lithic technique...
layers of deposits that are seen at the site today. The materials and lithictechnology found in Klissoura Cave 1 provide insight into the practices of its...
the three prehistoric Lithic, Archaic and Formative stages. The historic stages are the Classic and Post-Classic stages. The Lithic period occurred from...
to lithic analysis. He has produced major works developing and refining indices of reduction for retouched flakes. In addition to his work on lithic technology...
Solutrean and Clovis lithictechnologies are technologically distinct (e.g. a lack of distinctive flutes in Solutrean technology), there is no genetic...
"Stone Age Visiting Cards Revisited: a Strategic Perspective on the LithicTechnology of Early Hominin Dispersal". In Fleagle, John G.; Shea, John J.; Grine...
months at the Lithic Laboratory of the Ohio Historical Society. It was during this period that Crabtree was called upon as an advisor in lithic studies to...
lived there. Lithic assemblages have been classified as Oldowan in members E and F in the lower Omo basin. Although there have been lithic assemblages...
Scrapers (Racloirs Sur Talon): Another Look at a Non-formal Tool Type". LithicTechnology. p. 22. Racloir. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. 2008...
process of lithic reduction – the production of stone tools and weapons by knapping stone. This assemblage may include the different kinds of lithic flakes...
Hoabinhian is a lithic techno-complex of archaeological sites associated with assemblages in Southeast Asia from late Pleistocene to Holocene, dated to...
1888188. ISSN 0032-0447. Ellis, Christopher (July 2013). "Clovis LithicTechnology: The Devil Is in the Details". Reviews in Anthropology. 42 (3): 127–160...
ground down into awls, adzes, and axes. Cupstone Lithictechnology Andrefsky Jr., William (2005). Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis (Second ed...
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