Microlith
... tool, typically knapped of flint or chert. Microliths were either produced from small blades (microblades ... of waste (microburin). The latter type of microliths are called geometric microliths. They can be formed as various kinds ... be used for dating. Some types of microliths, such as trapezes, were used in the ... the Linear Pottery culture and Funnelbeaker culture). Microliths were produced during the middle stone ...
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History of West Africa
... forested regions of the coast were without microliths for thousands of years, but prospered using ... take place in West African society, with microliths becoming more common in the Sahel region ... available there and made the use of microliths in hunting far easier. The migration of ...
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Fa Hien Cave
... in 1988. The main finds consisted of microliths, the remains of ancient fires, and the ... Sri Lanka has yielded the earliest known microliths, which didn't appear in Europe until ...
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Origins of Paleoindians
... of the Dyukhtai was their manufacture of microliths or microblades. Microblades are small flakes less ... 64] The Paleo-Arctic The manufacture of microliths and composite tools from 27,000-7 ...
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Talk:Stone tool
Talk:Stone tool Mesolithic + Microliths Ok, this article has references the the ... are missing the Mesolithic and notes on microliths. Unfortunately I don't know much about ...
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Azilian
... artefacts from the culture include Azilian points (microliths with rounded retouched backs), crude flat bone ... with the late Magdelanian, the number of microliths increases. The Azilian co-existed with similar ...
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Maglemosian culture
... tools made from wood, bone and flint microliths. It appears that they had domesticated the ... of the culture are the sharply edged microliths of flintstone which were used for spear ...
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History of Assam
... the neolithic layers and virgin soil. The microliths here were made of dolerite, unlike those ...
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Nøstvet and Lihult cultures
... flat rocks. They used honed axes and microliths of various rocks, such as quartz, quartzite ...
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Linear Pottery culture
... abundance. The use of flint pieces, or microliths, descended from the Mesolithic, while the ground ...
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