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...

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...

(2000), p. 47 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lithic reduction. Andrefsky, W. (2005). Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge...

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 ...

associated with the initial stages of lithic reduction, while tertiary flakes are more likely to be associated with retouching and bifacial reduction activities...

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...

microblades. In these cases, their purpose is interpreted as both a rapid retouch and hafting preparation strategy for blade-based edge tools and bifaces...

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...

p. 311. ISBN 0-632-04704-6. Clarke's "punch-struck blades with steep retouch." Clarke's "microlithic components of composite artifacts." "Prehistoric...

typology. It is sometimes hard for typologists to tell whether lithic artefacts were retouched intentionally or unintentionally, for example as a result of...