Knapped stone tools are made from cryptocrystalline materials such as chert or flint, radiolarite, chalcedony, obsidian, basalt, and quartzite via a process known as lithic reduction.
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17 Facts About Flint tools
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In general terms, Knapped stone Flint tools are nearly ubiquitous in all pre-metal-using societies because they are easily manufactured, the tool stone is usually plentiful, and they are easy to transport and sharpen.
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Flint tools assigned to them relative dates: Modes 1 and 2 to the Lower Palaeolithic, 3 to the Middle Palaeolithic, 4 to the Upper Paleolithic, and 5 to the Mesolithic, though there were other lithic technologies outside these Modes.
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Consequently, in the literature the stone Flint tools used in the period of the Palaeolithic are divided into four "modes", each of which designates a different form of complexity, and which in most cases followed a rough chronological order.
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Stone Flint tools found from 2011 to 2014 at the Lomekwi archeology site near Lake Turkana in Kenya, are dated to be 3.
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Grooved, cut and fractured animal bone fossils, made by using stone Flint tools, were found in Dikika, Ethiopia near the remains of Selam, a young Australopithecus afarensis girl who lived about 3.
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Oldowan Flint tools were characterised by their simple construction, predominantly using core forms.
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Some Mode 2 Flint tools are disk-shaped, others ovoid, others leaf-shaped and pointed, and others elongated and pointed at the distal end, with a blunt surface at the proximal end, obviously used for drilling.
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Mode 2 Flint tools are used for butchering; not being composite they are not very appropriate killing instruments.
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Mode 5 stone Flint tools involve the production of microliths, which were used in composite Flint tools, mainly fastened to a shaft.
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In prehistoric Japan, ground stone Flint tools appear during the Japanese Paleolithic period, that lasted from around 40,000 BC to 14,000 BC.
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Elsewhere, ground stone Flint tools became important during the Neolithic period beginning about 10,000 BC.
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Complex stone Flint tools were used by the Gunditjmara of western Victoria until relatively recently.
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Flaked stone Flint tools were made by extracting a sharp fragment of stone from a larger piece, called a core, by hitting it with a "hammerstone".
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The best types of stone for these tools are hard, brittle stones, rich in silica, such as quartzite, chert, flint, silcrete and quartz.
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Tasmania did not have spears or stone axes, but the peoples there used Flint tools which were adapted to the climate and environment, such as the use of spongolite.
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Stone Flint tools are still one of the most successful technologies used by humans.
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