Stone Age Flintknappers

Stone tools being made and used. A stone tool is any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Most stone tools are associated with prehistoric, particularly Stone Age cultures that have become extinct. Stone has been used to make a wide variety of different tools throughout history, including arrow heads, spearpoints and querns. Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or chipped stone, and a person who creates tools out of the latter is known as a flintknapper. Flint is a type of hard stone found in rounded nodules and usually covered with a white incrustation. A member of the chalcedony group of water-bearing silica minerals, it was found from early use to fracture conchoidally and was ideal for making stone tools with sharp edges. It can be flaked readily in any direction and so shaped to many useful forms. It occurs widely, and where available was the basic material for man's tools until the advent of metal; it is commonest stone of the Stone Age

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