Explore: Lithic Raw Materials

Paleolithic, quartzite was used, along with flint, quartz, and other lithic raw materials, for making stone tools. Prehistoric humans in the southeastern United

numerous factors as to why some raw materials would be chosen over others and can result in the use of low quality materials. A few examples of such factors

lithic analysis is the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts using basic scientific techniques. At its most basic level, lithic analyses

aesthetically pleasing. Thus, there was a collapse of lithic craft specialization. Wherein raw material was being sent out and coming back in as blades, people

be removed from polyhedral blade cores, another common lithic feature of Paleo-Indian lithic culture. Prismatic blades are often triangular in cross

the lithic tools found at this site. The lithic tools found at this site were made from local non-flint materials and non-local flint materials. Jiahu

experimentally modified bone. The raw material collection includes samples of flint, which served as raw material for the production of artefacts during

haemotaphonomy of experimental human bloodstains on techno-prehistoric lithic raw materials". Journal of Archaeological Science. 29 (7): 733–739. Bibcode:2002JArSc

tools that use stone as raw material. Generally speaking, tools that require a sharp edge are made using cryptocrystalline materials that fracture in an easily

skeleton, six lithic cores, forty-nine lithic flakes, and two hammerstones, were found at the Rizal site. Some cores and the used lithic raw material show a