Prehistoric Technology: An Experimental Study of the Oldest Tools and Artefacts from Traces of Manufacture and Wear

abrasive Acheulian adze ancient angle antler archaeologists Aurignacian awls axis bifacial binocular blade edge blunted bone tools boring bow drill burin burin blow chalcedony chisel chopping tools colouring core cracks cutting diorite Eliseevich end-scrapers Eskimo ethnographic evidence example face facets flake flint blade flint tools fracture friction function grinding grooves ground hand handle hard holes hollow ivory knives Kostenki long bones lower palaeolithic Magdalenian mammoth manufacture material meat mesolithic metal method micro-photograph microscope Mousterian movement narrow neolithic period nephrite notch obsidian occur pebble percussion perforations pestles platform polishing prehistoric pressure retouch prismatic blades quartz quartzite reconstructed right-angles rocks rough rough-outs rubbing sawing scars scrapers scratches shape sharp sharpening shells sickles side skin Solutrean Stone Age stone tools striations strikers surface technique Timonovka traces of wear tusk upper palaeolithic Verkholensk wear traces whittling knife wood wooden worn