In archaeology, a flake tool is a type of stone tool that was used during the Stone Age that was created by striking a flake from a prepared stone core.

At the most basic level, all stone tools are either cores or flakes. The history of stone technology tracks how humans have refined their stone-flaking techniques to make the specific cores and …

flake tool, Stone Age hand tools, usually flint, shaped by flaking off small particles, or by breaking off a large flake which was then used as the tool.

Learn how people shaped sharp stone flakes into tools and projectile points through a process known today as flintknapping.

Flake tools are chipped stone flakes that were casually used for cutting, scraping, drilling or engraving with little or no secondary shaping or sharpening. Most flake tools have no distinct …

Flakes can be modified into formal tools, which result from additional working of the piece to shape a flake into a desired form, or they can be used without further modification, and are …

When a flake is trimmed or reduced by flaking, archaeologists refer to it as ‘retouched’. Retouching was often done to sharpen or repair a tool, or to modify it for use. Retouching was …

On the other hand, flake tools include any flake that exhibits changes on its edges either from use (known as use-wear) or from re-sharpening (edge modification). These tools have little to no …

Aboriginal flintknappers used their back teeth to micro-flake the edges of flake tools to prepare them for use. Experimental archaeologists have shown that the sharp edge of a stone flake …

A flake tool refers to a small and delicately made tool used during the Late Palaeolithic period. These tools were made from various raw materials and by different techniques, including hard …