Lithic may refer to:
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stone tool
Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age. Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a ...
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Lithic analysis, the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts
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Lithic core, the part of a stone which has had flakes removed from it
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Lithic flake, the portion of a rock removed to make a tool
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Lithic reduction, the process of removing flakes from a stone to make a tool
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Lithic technology
In archaeology, lithic technology includes a broad array of techniques used to produce usable tools from various types of stone. The earliest stone tools to date have been found at the site of Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) in Kenya and they have been dated to ...
, the array of techniques to produce tools from stone
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Lithic fragment (geology), pieces of rock, eroded to sand size, and now sand grains in a sedimentary rock
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Lithic sandstone, sandstone with a significant component of (above) lithic fragments
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Lithic stage, the North American prehistoric period before 10,000 years ago
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Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistory, prehistoric period during which Rock (geology), stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended b ...
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic ( years ago) ( ), also called the Old Stone Age (), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehist ...
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Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Ancient Greek language, Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic i ...
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
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Stone carving
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