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What is the definition of a tool? |
Any device used to carry out a particular function. |
Function |
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What do stone tools tell us? |
About preservation, raw material, technical choice, production, use, retouching and percentage in-situ. |
Preservation, use, material etc |
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What is chaine operatoire? |
Understanding the practical/cognitive steps to making a tool. |
Cognitive |
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What is the difference between a blade and a flake! |
Blades are 2x as long as they are wide, flake are short and fat. Dorsal face - uneven surface Ventral face - Flat with a bulb |
2x, ventral and dorsal. |
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What are the techniques for creating a stone tool? |
Hard hammerstone - flat, wide strike platform w/ a thick bulb. Soft Hammerstone - Thin flakes, not very visible bulb Indirect Percussion - Point of impact is a small lip on the butt Bipolar percussion - ‘Split fracture’ with a double bulb. |
Hard/soft hammerstone, indirect/bipolar percussion |
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Examples of unusual tools? |
Fontana, ranuccio, malagrotta and castel di guido- elephant-bone bifaces. Bizingsleben- elephant bone scraper/chopper tools. Bamboo is more likely to have been used in Asia, which is sharper than stone. Wood artefacts - kalambo falls, GBY, clacton on sea and schoningen dated 790-300kya. |
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