Lithic may refer to:
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stone tool
A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric (particularly Stone Ag ...
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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
In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,"Andrefsky, W. (2005) ''Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis''. 2d Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press and may also be refe ...
, 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, 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 prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC, with t ...
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...
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Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (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 is often used synonymous ...
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Neolithic
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Stone carving
Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material, stone work has survived which was created during our prehistory or past time.
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