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- A tranchet axe is a lithic tool made by removing a flake, known as a tranchet flake. The flake is removed parallel to the final intended cutting edge...
- In archaeology, a tranchet flake is a characteristic type of flake removed by a flintknapper during lithic reduction. Known as one of the major categories...
- prehistoric Hawaiians to obtain basalt stone for adzes and other tools ****ski Tranchet axe Rice M (1999). Who's who in ancient Egypt. New York: Routledge. p. 25...
- flakes. Some Acheulean tools were sharpened instead by the removal of a tranchet flake. This was struck from the lateral edge of the hand-axe close to the...
- Eccentric flint Lithic technology Nap (disambiguation) Olduwan Solutrean Tranchet axe Dibble, Harold; Whittaker, John (1981). "New Experimental Evidence...
- pointed end truncated away. Flake cleavers have a cutting edge created by a tranchet flake being struck from the primary surface. Cleavers, found in many Acheulean...
- Kulkuletti. Because of a unique production process that uses what are calledtranchet blows”, Tiya tools might also belong to the same time span as these other...
- side-notched), finely denticulated sickle-blades, burins, s****ers, a few tranchet axes, obsidian, and green obsidian from an unknown source. There were also...
- obtruncate, obtruncation, omnitruncation, retrench, retrenchment, tranche, tranchet, trench, trenchancy, trenchant, truncate, truncation, truncheon, trunk...
- floodplains for settlement and resource procurement. Three Mesolitihic tranchet axes were discovered during construction of the Hampton Waterworks. Evidence...