Which two techniques were used by early man to make stone tools?In short answer?
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Answer:
he oldest stone tools, known as the Oldowan toolkit, consist of at least:
• Hammerstones that show battering on their surfaces
• Stone cores that show a series of flake scars along one or more edges
• Sharp stone flakes that were struck from the cores and offer useful cutting edges, along with lots of debris from the process of percussion flaking .
Explanation:
The different 'stone tool making techniques' of the early man or prehistoric were Percussion, Blade, Grinding and Polishing, and Shattering. Out of the percussion group had 2 sub-groups, which the direct percussion and the indirect percussion.
EXPLANATION:
Percussion: Flaking by hitting directly with a hammer is called as direct percussion flaking technique. This flaking technique comprises several flaking techniques such as:
- Bipolar technique
- Block-on-Block or anvil technique
- Clactonian technique
- Hollow hammer or cylinder hammer or antler/ bone/hard wood hammer technique,
- Levalloisian technique
- Mousterian or Discoid cord technique
- Resolved or step or controlled flaking technique,
- Stone hammer technique
Blade Technique: The Middle Palaeolithic technique were the first one to know about this technique. Through this process, narrow, thin and parallel side flakes were made in various parts of the world (in the Palaeolithic period), Nevertheless, during the High Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and after times this technique was used frequently and extensively. The different types of blade techniques were
- Pressure flaking /Blade by pressure technique
- Fluting /Blade by percussion technique
- Blunting or baking
Grinding and Polishing: This is the standard feature while making Neolithic tools. Although the Neolithic stone tools have been formed by different percussion flaking and picking methods, grinding or polishing techniques are used to create smooth and polished surfaces with raw flaking or picking surfaces.
Shattering Technique: It's a very easy kind of tool making. The manufacturer, with his hands (both) holds the appropriate stone up to some point and releases it so that when it hits the ground, the rock breaks into pieces. The resulting flakes / rock sections have no negative or positive percussion filament. Either with grinding or stone hammering, the necessary dimensions from such flakes can be selected and further trimmed. This technique is limited to Southeast Asia.
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