Archaeologists define a chopper as a pebble tool with an irregular cutting edge formed through the removal of flakes from one side of a stone. Choppers...
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Chopper coupler Chopper (archaeology), a stone tool Chopper (electronics), a switching device Chopper (ghost), an alleged ghost in Germany Chopper (propeller)...
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Oldowan (redirect from Pebble Chopper)
The Oldowan (or Mode I) was a widespread stone tool archaeological industry (style) in prehistory. These early tools were simple, usually made by chipping...
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In archaeology a chopper core is a suggested type of stone tool created by using a lithic core as a chopper following the removal of flakes from that core...
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Bone tool Spear#Prehistory Prepared-core technique Blade (archaeology) Chopper (archaeology) Cleaver (tool) Tool stone Lithic flake Lithic core Lithic...
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In archaeology, a blade is a type of stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core. This process of reducing the stone and producing...
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In archaeological excavation, a feature is a collection of one or more contexts representing some human non-portable activity, such as a hearth or wall...
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In the archaeology of the Stone Age, an industry or technocomplex is a typological classification of stone tools. An industry consists of a number of...
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Chopping tool (redirect from Chopper Chopping-Tool Industry)
In archaeology a chopping tool is a stone tool. Stone tools are usually dated by determining the age of the find context e.g. by carbon-14 dating and...
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In prehistoric archaeology, scrapers are unifacial tools thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking. Many lithic analysts maintain that...
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National Museum of Iran (redirect from Museum of Islamic Archaeology and Art of Iran)
archaeological topics. National Museum of Iran is the world's most important museum in terms of preservation, display and research of archaeological collections...
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Megalithic architectural elements (redirect from Peristalith (archaeology))
architectural elements typical of European megalithic (Stone Age) structures. In archaeology, a forecourt is the name given to the area in front of certain types...
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period is recognized by pebble-grinders, pitted hammer stones, and pebble chopper. With these discoveries, recent carbon samples were obtained from the Maria...
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Prehistoric Korea (redirect from Archaeology of Korea)
the Korean past and is the major object of study in the disciplines of archaeology, geology, and palaeontology. Geological prehistory is the most ancient...
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Lithic flake (redirect from Flake (archaeology))
In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,": 255 and may also be referred to as...
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Three-age system (redirect from Archaeological timescale)
to other tripartite divisions of historic time periods. In history, archaeology and physical anthropology, the three-age system is a methodological concept...
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Vikings (redirect from Viking Age archaeology)
the complex, advanced civilisation of the Norsemen that emerges from archaeology and historical sources. A romanticised picture of Vikings as noble savages...
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Archaeoacoustics (redirect from Acoustic archaeology)
Archaeoacoustics is a sub-field of archaeology and acoustics which studies the relationship between people and sound throughout history. It is an interdisciplinary...
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"Archaeology Today", recorded on 9 October 1970 and broadcast on 17 November 1970, was the 21st episode of the popular British television comedy Monty...
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The Ojhiyana archaeological site in Bhilwara district, previously excavated in 1999-2000, revealed remains of Chalcolithic cultures. The 2000-01 excavation...
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Grave goods (category Archaeological artefact types)
Grave goods, in archaeology and anthropology, are items buried along with a body. They are usually personal possessions, supplies to smooth the deceased's...
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Clactonian (category Archaeology in Europe)
thick, irregular flakes from a core of flint, which was then employed as a chopper. The flakes would have been used as crude knives or scrapers. Unlike the...
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Stone Age (from Greek νέος néos 'new' and λίθος líthos 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia, Mesopotamia...
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cal-co-LI-thik) (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed...
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Lithic core (redirect from Core (archaeology))
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...
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Prehistoric music (redirect from Music (Archaeology))
studied alongside other periods within music archaeology.[citation needed] Findings from Paleolithic archaeology sites suggest that prehistoric people used...
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Prehistoric Britain (redirect from Archaeology of Great Britain)
way of life of pre-Roman Britain are known mainly through archaeological finds. Archaeological evidence demonstrates that ancient Britons were involved...
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Silk Road sites in India (category Archaeological sites in Bihar)
earth, a small conch, two glass beads, a small piece of gold leaf and a chopper punch marked on a coin. In Maurya, Shunga and Kushan period the stupa got...
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Acheulean (category Industries (archaeology))
from the French acheuléen after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive...
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Stone Age (section Stone Age in archaeology)
somewhat more sophisticated Lower Paleolithic tradition, known as the Chopper chopping tool industry, is widely distributed in the Eastern Hemisphere...
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