Drill

A tool, usually of wood or bone, used to drill holes through or into other wood, stone, or bone artifacts.

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Drill

Core Tool

A stone tool, such as a hand-ax, chopper, or scraper, formed by chipping away flakes from a core. These tools, often large and relatively heavy, were characteristic of Paleolithic the culture. They were made by using a pebble, antler, or bone hammer.

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Core Tool

Limace

A type of blade tool retouched along both sides to form a slug-shaped object.

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Limace

Shoe-Last Adze

A long thin stone adze (chisel-shaped ground-stone tool) employed by the Danubian farmers of the Early Neolithic, possibly as a hoe for cultivating their fields. It is a common stone tool found in Early Neolithic Linear Pottery contexts throughout Europe. It might also have been used as an adze f...

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Shoe-Last Adze

Erbenheim Sword

Heavy bronze flange-hilted sword with a leaf-shaped blade for slashing rather than thrusting. Originating in the early urnfield traditions of central Europe, examples were exported to surrounding areas, some arriving in Britain, for example, in the Penard Phase of the later Bronze Age, the 12th c...

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Erbenheim Sword

Edge-Ground Stone Tool

A tool classification of Pleistocene northern Australia and New Guinea and Southeast Asia comprised of hatchets, flakes, and other tools. Important sites include Nawamoyn, Malangangerr, Arnhem Land, Cape York, New Guinea Highlands. Edge-ground tools do not appear until the late Holocene elsewhere...

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Edge-Ground Stone Tool

Creaser

A flat edged blade used in leatherworking

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Creaser

Ground Stone Tool

A class of lithic (stone) artifacts produced by abrasion - grinding or pecking - and formed into a tool or vessel. Granite, pumice, and steatite fall into this class. Manos, metates, mortars, and pestles are common ground stone artifacts. Ground stone tools used to crush, pound, grind, or otherwi...

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Ground Stone Tool

Coracle

Primitive, light, small bowl-shaped boat with a wattle frame of grasses, reeds, or saplings covered with hides. They were first known in the Iron Age and are still used in Wales and along coastal Ireland, usually with a canvas and tar covering. The term also refers to an Old English boat of wicke...

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Coracle

Pin Beater

A thin rod of wood or bone (occasionally stone) with tapering ends used to compact the weft threads on an upright loom by pushing down between each of the warp threads one at a time. See also WEAVING COMB.

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Pin Beater

Shouldered Adze

Polished stone adze of Neolithic period, distributed along coastal area of China from Shantung southwards and in central-southern China. It was also prominent in Southeast Asia.

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Shouldered Adze

Toggling Harpoon

A type of detachable harpoon head attached to shaft by a line and float.

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Toggling Harpoon

Composite Tool

A tool formed of two or more joined parts, e.g. composite toggling harpoon head.

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Composite Tool

Polished Stone Adze

A chopping or cutting tool, beveled on one side and characteristic of the Neolithic in Southeast Asia. It appeared as early as 6000 BC in some places and continued in use into the 1st millennium AD in places with little metal. There were generally flaked to shape from a large core, then ground an...

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Polished Stone Adze

Mortar

Part of an ancient device for processing plant foods; usually used with a pestle. It was a stone or wooden receptacle with a cup-shaped depression. Mortars were frequently made of special rocks, which might be traded over considerable distances. The mortars of the medieval period in Europe have b...

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Mortar

Stepped Adze

Polished stone adze of the Chinese Neolithic, roughly rectangular in shape, flat on one side with a step on the other. It is also found in Southeast Asia.

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Stepped Adze

Ulu

A transverse-bladed Arctic knife, crescent-shaped and usually of slate. The blade of the knife is the lower element of an inverted T and the handle is the vertical upright element.

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Ulu

Stone Tool

A tool made of stone, either ground stone or chipped stone; a lithic artifact.

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Stone Tool

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

Compound Tool

Any tool made of two or more different materials, such as a bone harpoon with stone points and barbs set in it, or a wooden arrow with a shaped stone point.

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Compound Tool

Pebble Tool

A simple form of stone cutting tool, the oldest type of tool made by forerunners of modern humans. The tool consists of a rounded stone struck a number of blows with a similar stone used as a pounder, which created a serrated crest that served as a chopping blade. The core is only slightly altere...

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Pebble Tool

Burren Adze

A term sometimes used by Australian archaeologists for flake scrapers, hafted for woodworking, which are not Tula adzes

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Burren Adze

Winged Chape

A metal cap covering the end of a sword scabbard that has one or more projecting ribs or wings so that a swordsman riding on horseback can hold the scabbard with the heel of his boot while drawing his sword singlehandedly. Winged chapes are especially characteristic of the European later Bronze A...

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Winged Chape

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

Myoparo

Myoparo, Romalılar tarafından kullanılan, hem ticaret amaçlı hem de savaşlarda kullanılan bir gemi türüydü. En çok korsanlar tarafından kullanılıyordu.

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Myoparo

Myoparo, among the Romans, was a ship of such construction as to resemble both a merchant ship and ship of war. It was used most commonly by pirates.

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