into a functional tool, or to reshape a used tool. Retouch can be a strategy to reuse an existing lithic artifact and enable people to transform one tool...
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Look up retouch or retouching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Retouch or retouching may refer to: Retouch (lithics), the work done to a flint implement...
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(2000), p. 47 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lithic reduction. Andrefsky, W. (2005). Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge...
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anvil.: 172–3 Natufian lithic technology throughout the usage of the Helwan Retouch was dominated by lunate-shaped lithics, such as picks and axes: 167 ...
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associated with the initial stages of lithic reduction, while tertiary flakes are more likely to be associated with retouching and bifacial reduction activities...
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Hammerstone (category Lithics)
abrupt retouch). It is also possible to retouch stone tools on the anvil by means of pressure flaking, thus obtaining a regular and monofacial retouched edge...
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microblades. In these cases, their purpose is interpreted as both a rapid retouch and hafting preparation strategy for blade-based edge tools and bifaces...
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Flake tool (category Lithics)
extremely sharp & could easily be repaired. Flake tools could be sharpened by retouch to create scrapers or burins. These tools were either made by flaking off...
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Stone tool (redirect from Lithic tool evolution)
p. 311. ISBN 0-632-04704-6. Clarke's "punch-struck blades with steep retouch." Clarke's "microlithic components of composite artifacts." "Prehistoric...
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Denticulate tool (category Lithics)
typology. It is sometimes hard for typologists to tell whether lithic artefacts were retouched intentionally or unintentionally, for example as a result of...
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