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- Stone Tool Typology - Introduction to the classification of stone tools by form.
- The Stone Age Laboratory - Established in 1957, the lab maintains a unique research environment, combining the Peabody Museum's famous collections of stone tools dating from 1.8 million to 7000 years ago with state-of-the-art computer technology. Includes: links, staff, projects and contact information.
- Tile And Stone Tools - Selling professional ceramic tile installation tools, with illustrated catalog and online ordering.
- Massachusetts Arrowheads and Stone Tools - A site exhibiting arrowheads and stone tools found in Massachusetts by a local mineral collector.
- Gunner Jim's Arrowheads - Pictures of a personal collection of arrowheads, spear points, and stone tools, found while surface artifact hunting in Middle and West Tennessee.
- Scholars Devise Method to Confirm Date of Stone Tools - From the Japan Times, Nagatomo said he hopes the method will help verify the authenticity of controversial Paleolithic stone tools discovered in northeastern Japan.
- Embeddedness of Lithic Technology - An article by Leland C. Bement that describes using stone tools to reconstruct Folsom mobility and subsistence practices on the Southern Plains.
- Interpreting the Function of Stone Tools - Describes the methodology and quantification of microwear analysis. Hypertext version of 1989 book on quantification and computerisation of microwear analysis by Roger Grace
- Arroweb1 - Photographs of a personal collection of stone tools from Arizona and Texas.
- Artifacts From The Southeast - Skip Hutchison's collection of stone tools from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Includes brief descriptions of the artifacts.
Wikipedia Articles
- Tool stone - In archaeology, a tool stone is a type of stone that is used to manufacture stone tools. Generally speaking, tools that require a sharp edge are made using cryptocrystalline materials that fracture in an easily-controlled conchoidal manner.
- Stone tool - A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made of stone. Although stone-tool-dependent cultures exist even today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric societies that no longer exist.
- Ground stone - In archaeology, ground stone is a category of stone tool formed by the grinding of a coarse-grained tool stone, either purposely or incidentally. Ground stone tools are usually made of basalt, rhyolite, granite, or other macrocrystalline igneous stones whose coarse structure makes them ideal for grinding other materials, including plants and other stones.
- Quern-stone - Quern-stones are a pair of stone tools for hand grinding a wide variety of materials. The lower, stationary, stone is called a quern, whilst the upper, mobile, stone is called a handstone.
- Chipped stone - In archaeology, chipped stone refers to a method of manufacturing stone tools through lithic reduction, wherein lithic flakes are struck off a mass of tool stone with a percussor. The intention is usually either to produce a tool from the remainder of the lithic core after the extraneous material has been removed, or to produce flakes that can ...