In dictionaries:
Lithic technology
In archaeology, lithic technology includes a broad array of techniques used to produce usable tools from various types of stone.
lithic analysis
In archaeology, lithic analysis is the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts using basic scientific techniques.
lithic sandstone
Lithic sandstones, or lithic arenites, or litharenites, are sandstones with a significant component of lithic fragments, though quartz and feldspar are usually present as well, along with some clayey matrix.
lithic acid
Nonexistent; likely meant "uric acid."
Lithic flake
In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,"Andrefsky, W. Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis.
Lithic reduction
In archaeology, in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts.
Lithic stage
In the sequence of cultural stages first proposed for the archaeology of the Americas by Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips in 1958, the Lithic stage was the earliest period of human occupation in the Americas, as post-glacial hunter gatherers spread through the Americas.; free online text
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