A stone tool used to remove fat from the interior of an animal hide
A tool, such as an antler billet, or antler drift, which was used in removing flakes during the manufacture of a flaked stone projectile, tool, blade or artifact.
A type of tool typical of the later stages of the European Bronze Age in which the body of the tool is hollow so that it can receive a shaped projection at the end of the haft in order to secure the haft to the metal axehead. Socketed axes were produced in multi-piece moulds.
In Roman antiquity, a rounded bowl, often of bronze, usually with a long handle and used for pouring libations. The dish was also used in sacrifices.
A pin used to hold meat together whilst cooking.
The analysis of stone tools and stone tool technology.
A term for all the tools used by a given culture for its technology (spatially patterned), or for a set of tools used together for a specific task (functionally patterned).
A large metal pot, used for cooking over an open fire
A shaft hole adze with additional hammer knob, normally polished stone.
Common transport vessel of the Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. Canaanite amphoras average 30 inches in height and have a short, relatively narrow flaring mouth, a wide shoulder with two handles on it, and a tapering profile running down to a narrow pointed base. They were made in va...
The sharp ridge or edge formed by the junction of two smooth surfaces, especially on the midrib of a dagger or sword, or in moldings.
A tool made from a single thin narrow flake detached from a core. The controlled flaking technique is characteristic of the Upper Palaeolithic but it is also known from earlier cultures.
An ancient machine used to decide who would serve on a jury in courts of law. There are surviving examples, such as the one from the Agora at Athens. Different colored balls would drop when tickets were inserted; the color determined acceptance or rejection.
Pointed bladelet with basal stem used in North African Late Pleistocene and Holocene, such as in Ounanian and Early Neolithic industries of the Eastern Sahara.
A vessel used to produce butter from milk through agitation.
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.
Any tool used for cutting, gouging, shaving, piercing, scraping, and sawing.
A stone tool flaked in such a way as to produce a cutting edge that is sharp on one side only
Armored covering to protect the hand and wrist.
A 20-ton, 4-meter wide carved monolith commissioned by the emperor Axayacatl in 1479, which symbolizes the Aztec universe. The populations of central Mexico believed that they were living in the fifth epoch of a series of worlds (or suns) marked by cyclical generation and destruction. The central...
Ancient accessories of horse bits or cheek pieces, comprising a pair of vertical rods which were attached perpendicularly to the ends of bits and served for attaching the reins and as a stop piece. Psalia of bone, wood, bronze, and iron were used everywhere there was horse riding. Their shapes ar...
A type of extremely regular and large (1-2 inches wide and up to 10-12 inches long) flint blade produced by a specialized technique. The technology seems to have first appeared at the beginning of the 4th millennium BC in eastern Anatolia and adjoining areas, and was then introduced to the southe...
A highly sensitive portable magnetometer that can detect minute magnetic variations, down to about one millionth of the earth's magnetic field.
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