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Native American Lithic Tools


These are the oldest stone tools ever found in the United States

Stone tools unearthed from a rock shelter in Southern Oregon were last used more than 18,000 years ago, radiocarbon dating suggests.

Clovis Stone Tools - Museum of Anthropology

The stone-tool complex known today as Clovis dates to the terminal Pleistocene, from roughly 10,000 B.C. to 7800 years B.C., and represents the earliest ...

Lithics, Ceramics and Fauna, Oh My! – An Internship Cataloging ...

Occasionally we come across some historical artifacts. Lithics are stone artifacts and can be as purposeful as chipped stone tools or as common ...

Lithic core - Wikipedia

In this sense, a core is the scarred nucleus resulting from the detachment of one or more flakes from a lump of source material or tool stone, usually by using ...

Native American Tools Of The Susquehanna River Valley - StoryMaps

Stone tools, including projectile points and knives, were common, shaped meticulously to serve specific purposes. Additionally, bone and antler ...

The Prehistory of North Carolina: A Basic Cultural Sequence

Ground stone tools, including axes and atlatl weights, were developed, along with carved stone bowls (soapstone). Baskets, nets, mats, canoes and other ...

Prehistoric Stone Quarrying in Colorado

Late Paleo-Indian and Archaic period toolmakers expanded their use of local rock with the addition of sandstones and other coarse-textured materials needed ...

Ancient Tools: Searching for the First Americans

Tool Kit. Albert Goodyear, a University of South Carolina archaeologist, holds a piece of chert, a type of rock broken ...

Paleoindian Period | PHMC > Pennsylvania Archaeology

Compared to latter groups, Paleoindians seemed to have preferred the highest quality stone to make their tools. Although they also used lesser quality material, ...

(8) Native American Stone Tools - Indianapolis - Jacksons Auction

(8) Native American Stone Tools. View catalog. Sold: $30.00. Estimate: $25 - $200. June 8, 2019 10:00 AM EDT. Indianapolis, IN, US.

lithics | Tennessee Council for Professional Archaeology

We think these pioneering foragers opportunistically knocked these blocks from the wall and fashioned them into stone tools. ... stone points in North America.

Paleoindian Period - Encyclopedia of Alabama

Thus, archaeologists are left with stone tools as their main clues to Native American life during the Paleoindian period. Interestingly, some of the highest ...

What the flakes can tell us - 30 Days of Kentucky Archaeology

By L. Michael Creswell, Jr, Archaeologist, ERG, LLC A vital part of life for the native peoples of prehistoric Kentucky were stone tools.

Discovery of Native American Camp - National Agricultural Library

During the study of the site, archeologists found many Native American tools, flakes of stone (debitage) from tool-making processes, and fire-cracked rock ...

Continuity in Stone Tool Use during the Historic Period in San Diego ...

Indian people in California and elsewhere employed stone tools in historic times—whether their residence was at Spanish missions, on Mexican period ranchos and ...

Native American Indian - Upcoming Auctions | Pook & Pook

Five prehistoric stone celts, etc. ... Five prehistoric stone celts, etc. ... Various Native American stone axe heads, etc. ... Various Native American stone axe ...

Understanding Cultural Resources

... Native American settlements occupied after the arrival of European settlers in California. Such sites include villages, seasonal camp sites, stone tool ...

Flintknapping and Stone Tools found in Oregon

Examples of projectile points and the archaeological time periods in which they are associated within the. Northwest. DT. Paleo Indian/Clovis. (sizes varied ...

31 Native American Chert Lithic Flake Scraper Tools - LiveAuctioneers

Originally Listed At $250** Native American, Southwestern United States, Archaic to Woodlands period, ca. 5000 BCE to.

Prehistoric Americas, Tools, Artifacts - Stone Age - Britannica

At this period, two distinct traditions in North America are known: the Paleo-Indian big-game hunters of the Great Plains and eastern North ...