TOOLS FING IN PREHISTORY TOOLS FOUND IN PALEOLITHIC AGE [ 2 million 3C -10,000 BC ] TOOLS FOUND IN MESOLITHIC AGE [ 10000 BC - 8000 BC ] TOOLS FOUND IN NEOLITHIC AGE [ 8000 BC - 4000 BC ]

1. TOOLS FIND IN PREHISTORY
SUBJECT : HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE-II [AR-123]
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - HAMIRPUR

2. TOOLS FOUND IN PALEOLITHIC AGE
[ 2 million 3C -10,000 BC ]

3. BIFACE
● A hand axe (or handaxe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the
longest-used tool in human history
● Its technical name (biface) comes from the fact that the archetypical model
is generally bifacial Lithic flake and almond-shaped (amygdaloidal).
● The raw flakes were modified for particular uses by systematic percussion
flaking their edges.Mousterian flake knives made in this way were
apparently used for such tasks as cutting small pieces of wood and
butchering animals.
SUBMITTED BY: GEETANJALI VERMA {20BAR053}
SUBJECT : HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE-II [AR-123]
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - HAMIRPUR
BIFACE

4. BURINS:
● These are stone tools ,pointed head or edged
on wood ,stones or on bones
● Their purpose is interpreted as both a rapid
retouch and hafting preparation strategy for
blade-based edge tools.
● these flake tools have been restruck and
refined to give several chisellike edges and a
blunt, grippable rear edge.
● An example of a type of burin diagnostic of the
archaeological stratum where they are found is
the "Noailles" burin,

5. HARPOON
● A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument and
tool used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other
marine hunting to catch large fish or marine
mammals such as whales.
● It accomplishes this task by impaling the
target animal and securing it with barb or
toggling claws, allowing the fishermen to use a
rope or chain attached to the projectile to
catch the animal.
● A harpoon can also be used as a weapon.
● There are references to harpoons in ancient
literature; though, in most cases, the
descriptions do not go into detail.
"Manner in which Natives of the East Coast strike
turtle." Near Cooktown, Australia. From Phillip
Parker King's Survey. 1818.

6. BLADE
● A blade is a type of stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core.
● This process of reducing the stone and producing the blades is called lithic reduction.
● Archaeologists use this process of flintknapping to analyze blades and observe their
technological uses for historical peoples.

7. PALEOLITHIC TOOLS
● Acheulian culture ovate hand axe found at Ayelesford, Kent, in
terrace gravels of the River Medway. 122x76mm
● Age possibly more than 100,000 years.
● Palaeolithic 'bout coupé' hand axe found on field surface
in Hampshire. 75x50mm
● The flat base indicates Neanderthal origin. Age 30,000
to 40,000 years.

8. ● Palaeolithic flint
hand axe. A
crude ovate. 83
mm wide.
● Found at
Warsash,
Hampshire. Age
possibly more
than 100,000
years.
● Palaeolithic
flint
pointed
handaxe.
97mm
50mm.
● Found at
Warsash,
Hampshire.
Age
possibly
more than
100,000
years.

9. ● Rough-out for a
Palaeolithic flint
hand axe.
145mm x 84mm
● Found in terrace
gravels of River
Medway at Sturry,
Canterbury, Kent.
● Palaeolithic flint
hand axe. A
large pointed
ficron. 194mm x
116mm
● Found at
Warsash,
Hampshire. Age
possibly more
than 100,000
years.

10. ● Palaeolithic flint ovate hand axe.
98mm x 76mm.
● Found at Warsash, Hampshire. Age
possibly more than 100,000 years.
● Palaeolithic flint pointed handaxe.
107mm x 74 mm.
● Found at Warsash, Hampshire. Age
possibly more than 100,000 years.

11. TOOLS FOUND IN MESOLITHIC AGE
[ 10000 BC - 8000 BC ]

12. FLAKE-AXE
● Flaked stone axe, possibly a tranchet axe.
● Mottled medium-grey flint.
● Lightly flaked (and battered at the sides) on a
truncated flake, with the bit appearing to have
been formed by a tranchet (a single flake
driven across the face to form the cutting
edge).

13. MESOLITHIC TOOLS REMAINS
● A Mesolithic tranchet
adze from Hampshire.
This carpentry tool is
designed to be
re-sharpened by taking
an additional
crossswise (tranchet)
flake across the
working tip of the tool.
● Found in Hampshire.
Age around 8,000
years. 151mm x 48mm,
406 gms.
● Most tranches adzes
have a diamond
shaped cross section
with a ridge both top
and bottom. This adze
of of the 'Hassocks'
kind, associated with
West Sussex, with a
flat back.
● Found in Hampshire.
Age around 8,000
years. 151mm x 48mm,
406 gms.

14. ● An unusually wide
Mesolithic end
scraper, found in
Hampshire.
● Formed on a flake.
59mm x 53mm,
55gms. Around
8,000 years old
● A small delicate
side scraper on a
flake with platform,
bulb of percussion
and retouched
along one edge
and top a point.
● Flake size 34mm x
19mm 5 gms.
● An exceptionally
thick side and end
scraper formed on a
long flake with
platform and
retouched along the
working edge.
Cortex has been left
to cover the
opposite edge.
● Found in
Hampshire. Age
around 8,000 years.
92mm x 37mm, 72
gms.

15. ● Another finely struck blade From Sussex. About
8,000 years old.
● 76mm x30mm, 30 gms. Again, no discernible
curvature over its full length.
● With superb control the Mesolithic knapper has struck a
blade that is 64mm x 29mm and only 9mm thick, 30
gms, with no discernible curvature along its length.
● From Sussex. About 8,000 years old.

16. TOOLS FOUND IN NEOLITHIC AGE
[ 8000 BC - 4000 BC ]

17. ● Neolithic core, crudley flaked.
Compare with Mesolithic cores.
● 55mm x 63mm x 40mm, 156 gms
● A thick Neolithic flake used as a core
and then retouched as an end
scraper
● 42mm x 50mm x 24mm, 57 gms

18. ● Neolithic side
and end scraper
with point
Found in West
Sussex.
● 63mm x 29mm x
12mm, 25gms
● Thick Neolithic
blade, possibly
used as side
scraper and end
scraper.
● 69mm x 34mm
x21mm, 52gms.

19. ● Long Neolithic flake retouched as
knife or side scraper.
● 73mm x 44mm x19mm, 48gms.
● Neolithic flake crudely retouched on
both edges as a side scraper.
● 60mm x 40mm x 9mm, 25 gms.

20. ● Polished Neolithic flint axe found in West Sussex.
● 165mm x 55mm
● Neolithic end scraper from Windmill
Hill, West Sussex.
● 57mm x 58mm x 16mm, 58gms
● Around 5,000 years old.
● Neolithic end scraper made on a
thick flake
● 63mm x 58mm x25mm, 110 gms.
● Around 5,000 years old.

21. REFERANCE:
● Mesolithic flint tools (stoneagetools.co.uk)
● What is Biface tool? (treehozz.com)
● Palaeolithic Tools (stoneagetools.co.uk)
● Neolithic Tools (stoneagetools.co.uk)
● IMAGES :GOOGLE

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