Axe Factory

During the Neolithic period in Europe certain outcrops of fine-grained rock were exploited for the production of polished axes. Microscopic analysis of the rock allows the sources to be identified, as each type of rock has its own distinctive crystalline structure; this enables the trading networ...

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Axe Factory

Australian Small Tool Tradition

Holocene suite of stone tool types comprising backed blades and flakes, unifacial and bifacial points and small adze flakes. Tools with regional distributions include Bondi points, geometric microliths, Pirri points and tula adzes. All except the Bondi points and geometric microliths were still i...

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Australian Small Tool Tradition

Ard

Primitive, form of plough, pulled by man or beast. It has a simple blade with a share which simply scratches the ground and does not turn a furrow. With this type of plough cross-ploughing is normally necessary, involving two ploughings, the second at right angles to the first.

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Arctic Small Tool Tradition

Generalized hunting tradition, evidence of which has been found within a wide geographical band stretching from the Bering Sea across the north Canadian coast as far east as Greenland. The Denbigh Flint Complex, named from the type site at Cape Denbigh, Alaska, is the characteristic tool assembla...

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Arctic Small Tool Tradition

Expedient Tool

Οποιοδήποτε εργαλείο σχηματίζεται γρήγορα και για άμεση χρήση, συχνά κατασκευασμένο με νιφάδα.

archaeologsGreekTools

Expedient Tool

Tout outil formé rapidement et pour une utilisation immédiate, souvent fabriqué avec un flocon.

archaeologsFrenchTools

Expedient Tool

Jedes Werkzeug formte sich schnell und für den sofortigen Gebrauch, oft mit einer Flocke.

archaeologsGermanTools

Expedient Tool

Çoğunlukla pul ile yapılan, hızlı ve hemen kullanım için oluşturulan herhangi bir alet.

archaeologsTurkishTools

Armorican Axe

Kuzey Fransa Bronz Çağı'nın sonlarında M.Ö. 600-650 döneminde üretilen sade ve pürüzlü bir şekilde yapılmış soketli bronz balta.

archaeologsTurkishTools, Weapons

Patera

Antik Roma'da, genellikle bronz, uzun saplı ve boşaltma dökme işlemleri için kullanılan yuvarlak bir kase. Ritüellerde sıklıkla kullanılırdı.

archaeologsTurkishAncient Pottery, Tools

Strigilis

Cildin temizlenmesi için Roma ve Yunan atletleri ya da sporcuları tarafından kullanılan boynuz veya metalden (bronz, gümüş) yapılmış dar kavisli bir kazıyıcı. Banyo veya egzersiz sonrası uygulanan zeytinyağını çıkarmak için kullanılırdı. Romalılar özellikle sıcak odada (caldarium) kullandılar ve ...

archaeologsTurkishOthers, Tools

Tool

Any existing physical object that is in some way fashioned or altered by humans and employed for a specific task or purpose. Tools made of stone included of axes, adzes, arrowheads, spearheads, daggers, knife blades, scrapers, borers, burins, picks, etc. The first tools date back to c 2,600,000 y...

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Tool

Jadeite Axe

Thin highly polished unperforated implements, probably for ceremonial use. Examples date mainly from the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in northwest Europe.

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Jadeite Axe

Lambeth Sword

Type of late Bronze Age straight-sided bronze sword with a flat mid-section and rectangular hilt-tang found in southern Britain in the 12th and 11th centuries BC (Penard Phase). Local indigenous copies of the Rosnoën swords made in northern France.

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Lambeth Sword

Abrader

A stone tool with abrasive qualities, such as pumice or sandstone, used in grinding, smoothing, sharpening, or shaping tools or other objects.

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Abrader

Bossed Bone Plaque

Armorican Axe

Rather plain and shoddily made type of socketed bronze axe produced in the period 600-650 BC at the very end of the Bronze Age of northern France (Hallstatt II). Mostly found in large hoards, in which few examples appear to have been finished or used. This has led to the suggestion that they were...

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Armorican Axe

Notching Flake

A flake produced when putting hafting notches on a stone tool.

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Notching Flake

Broadsword

A broad design of sword used for cutting and slashing.

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Broadsword

Tula Adze

In Australia, a hafted chisel made to work hardwoods. It is a thick, round stone flake, usually about 5 cm long, with a steeply trimmed working edge opposite an obtuse-angled striking platform. They usually have a prominent bulb and convex bulbar surface. Ethnographic examples are set in gum on t...

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Tula Adze

Dagger

A short stabbing knife which, in ancient and medieval times, was not very different from a short sword. From about 1300 the European dagger was differentiated from the sword. In earliest antiquity, it was made of flint, copper, bronze, iron, or bone. It is difficult to distinguish it from an inof...

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Dagger

Polished Tool

Any artifact made by the pecking or grinding of hard stones. The Neolithic Period was the first widespread used of polished rock tools, notably axes, with the adoption of a new technique of stoneworking. The revolutionary method used to create polished tools was essentially a finishing process th...

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Polished Tool

Chipped Stone Tool

Any tool produced by flaking or chipping of pieces from a stone core to produce an implement.

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Chipped Stone Tool

Armorico-British Dagger

Type of bronze dagger found in the ESSEX I Phase of the early Bronze Age (c.1700-1500 BC) in southern Britain which has similarities with examples from Brittany. It has a flat triangular blade, lateral grooves, and six rivets for attaching the blade to the hilt. Sometimes a small tang or languett...

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Armorico-British Dagger

Strigilis

A narrow curved scraper, made of horn or metal (bronze, silver), used by Roman and Greek bathers for the cleansing of the skin. A strigil was used to remove olive oil applied after bathing or exercising. Romans used them particularly in the hot room (caldarium) and the task was often performed by...

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Strigilis

Ansa Lunata

A handle or handles on a vessel or vase going in two opposite directions or in two diverging projects. The term describes Terramara pottery of the Apennine culture and vessels of central Europe of the Middle to Late Bronze Age.

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Ansa Lunata

Hacha

A thin-bladed axe thought to have had a ceremonial function for the Maya with a possible connection to the ball game tlachtli.

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Hacha

Costrel

A type of medieval pottery flask, of which the majority were made of leather and have not survived. Merovingian and Carolingian pottery costrels tend to be roughly round in shape, with a slight neck for a stopper. The best-known is the Zelzate costrel, made in the 'Badorf-type' industries of the ...

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Costrel

Expedient Tool

Any tool formed quickly and for immediate use, often made with a flake.

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Expedient Tool

Casual Tool

Object used as a tool once or twice for a specific purpose and discarded with no purposeful modification

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