endscrapers
sidescrapers
projectile points
microliths
- lanceolate microlith
- lunate microlith
- triangular microlith
- trapeze microlith
- rectangle microlith
- rhomboid microlith
burins
piercers/borers
axes
sickles
knapping tools
palaeolithic hand axes
TECHNOLOGY
debitage
- blank
- preform
- debris
- detritus
- flake
- chip
- blade
- bladelet
- knapping fragment
- platform rejuvenation flake
- flake from a polished axe
- crested blade
- parts of debitage
platforms
hammer mode
breakage patterns
knapping features
retouch types
- scraper retouch
- parallel retouch
- sub-parallel retouch
- fine retouch
- abrupt retouch
- scalar retouch
- invasive retouch
retouch position
- direct retouch
- inverse retouch
- alternate retouch
- alternating retouch
- bifacial retouch
- invasive retouch​
special techniques
- pressure flaking
- burin technique
- micro-burin technique
- levallois technique
- groove and splinter technique
RAW MATERIALS
natural alteration
- heat fracture
- frost fracture
- patination
- desert polish
- sickle gloss
- starch fractures
- fire-cracked rocks
- ballast
- edge damage
nodules
silica rocks
igneus rocks
metamorphic rocks
miscellaneous
STUDY METHODS
typological analysis
use-wear analysis
refitting
chaîne opératoire
expert systems
experimental archaeology
- knapping experiments
- functional experiments
- chopping down trees with a stone axe
- skinning and butchering a deer with stone tools
- post use wear analysis replication experiment
- taphonomic studies
ethnography
- knapping and spear fishing in Australia
- making and using stone tools in New Guinea
- using a bow drill in Erzurum, Eastern Turkey
- threshing sledge in eastern Turkey