Knapper

One who manufactures stone artifacts.

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Knapper

Flaker

Any pressure-flaking tool, often made from bone or antler, used to detach flakes in stone material in knapping; an implement for flaking flint.

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Flaker

Bann Flake

A term variously used by different authorities, but at its minimum it is simply a kind of leaf-shaped flake found widely amongst the later Mesolithic assemblages of Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man, one component of the BANN CULTURE. More strictly, Peter Woodman defines them as large flakes h...

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Bann Flake

Butter Churn

A vessel used to produce butter from milk through agitation.

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Butter Churn

Awl

A small tool consisting of a thin, tapering, sharp-pointed blade of bone, flint, or metal used for piercing holes, making decorations, or in assisting basketweaving.

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Awl

Grotta-Pelos

A culture of a series of archaeological sites in the Cyclades (Early Cycladic I), c 3200-2700 BC.

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Grotta-Pelos

Axis Of Flaking

An imaginary line drawn roughly down the middle of a lithic flake as viewed from the dorsal side and extending from the point of percussion and is parallel to the direction of striking or the line of force during striking.

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Axis Of Flaking

Acrolith

A Greek statue, of which the head and extremities were of stone or marble and the trunk crafted of wood which was either gilt or draped. The acrolith period was the infancy of Greek plastic art.

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Acrolith

Kura-Araxes Culture

Culture complex of Early Bronze Age sites of Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia, and northwest Iran, probably of the later 4th through later 3rd millennia BC. The complex is characterized by black or red highly burnished pottery. There were portable hearths and some circular houses.

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Kura-Araxes Culture

Wheel

One of man's simplest but most important inventions. A Sumerian (Erech) pictograph, dated about 3500 BC, shows a sledge equipped with wheels. It is also shown in Uruk pictographs, c 3400 BC, and on the Royal Standard of Ur. Early wheels were solid and unwieldy, made of a single piece of wood or t...

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Wheel

Knapping

The working of stone by applying force to its surface - by percussion or pressure - to produce a tool. A knapper is one who manufactures stone artifacts, especially by chipping. This technique of striking flakes or blades from a hard, brittle rock, such as flint or obsidian, id done by means of s...

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Knapping

Backed Flake

A purposely created flake tool which is usually a decortication flake that retains a piece of the cortex on one side and a sharp edge on the other.

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Backed Flake

Kore

A type of freestanding statue of a maiden - the female counterpart of the kouros, or standing youth - that appeared with the beginning of Greek monumental sculpture in about 660 BC and remained to the end of the Archaic period in about 500 BC. It evolved from a highly stylized form to a more natu...

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Kore

Flintknapping

The technique of striking flakes or blades from a large flint stone (core or nucleus) and the shaping of cores and flakes into tools. The most commonly used stone was flint (chert), a hard, brittle stone, commonly found as nodules in limestone areas, that breaks with a conchoidal fracture. Flintk...

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Flintknapping

Bronze Mirror

Any of the smooth-faced bronze discs of eastern Asia in the late 2nd millennium BC. These cast-decorated items became important to the Han dynasty elite in China. In Korea and Japan, they were used for rituals or ceremonies.

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Bronze Mirror

Tegula Mammata

A Latin term used to describe a rectangular tile with conical projections or flanges at each corner on one side. They were fixed to the surface of walls with clamps in order to form cavities through which hot gases from the hypocaust circulated.

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Tegula Mammata

Chattel Art

All portable decorated objects, especially those of Palaeolithic date

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Chattel Art

Klepsydra

Yunan uygarlığında kullanılan su saati. Atina mahkemelerinde konuşma yapan kişilerin konuşma sürelerini belirlemek gibi amaçlarla kullanılmıştır. Güneş saatinin olmadığı durumlarda ya da güneş olmadığı zaman dilimlerinde de kullanılmış olabilirler.

archaeologsTurkishTools, Artifacts

Klepsydra

The water clock, or klepsydra, probably developed in response to the shortcomings of the sundial, namely the inability of the sundial to work when there was no sun and to maintain a constant division of time.

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Klepsydra

Obsidian

Volkanik lavların suyla karşılaşıp aşırı hızlı bir şekilde donmasıyla oluşan doğal bir camdır. Keskin, kolay işlenebilir ve kırılgan yapıdadır. Volkanik aktivite bulunan yerlerde bulunur. Cam parlaklığında ve yarısaydam görünümdedir. Tarih öncesi zamanlarda alet yapımı gibi alanlarda kullanımı ya...

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Obsidian

A jet-black to gray, naturally occurring volcanic glass, formed by rapid cooling of viscous lava. It was often used as raw material for the manufacture of stone tools and was very popular as a superior form of flint for flaking or as it is easily chipped to form extremely sharp edges. Obsidian br...

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Obsidian

A glassy, volcanic rock, often black in color, was used in ancient times to produce extremely sharp blades. Obsidian blades can have an edge so sharp that they have been successfully used as scalpels in heart and eye surgery.

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Obsidian