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Two polished stone cutting tools. One, the shoe-last celt, is relatively narrow, curving slightly at the end similar to a shoemaker's last, hence the name. The other, the flat adze, is flat and wide, shaped like an axehead.
In Early Neolithic Central Europe, two primary woodworking tools appeared: the 'shoe-last celt' (left) and 'flat adze' (right) #FlintFriday 🏺
Experimental #archaeology and computational modelling shows how and why they varied based on how they were used.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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#FluoriteFriday
#FossilFriday
#VolcanoFriday
#FortressFriday
#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday
#FlintFriday
#VikingFriday
#RomanRoadsFriday
#PharaohFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
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🪨A Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age c.2,500-1,600 BC dark brown translucent flint flake plano-convex blade/knife 61x31mm. Dorsal side has small amount of cortex at distal end, ventral surface pronounced blub of percussion at proximal end. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology
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Left: two (damaged) late Neolithic flint tools Right: are rather later golf ball
Late Neolithic grooved ware pottery sherds from an enigmatic pit and post-hole feature.
Rather pleasing Anglian early Medieval decorated-stamped sherds from a handled urn, possible burial, next to a sunken grubenhaus 'shed'.
We don't like tree-throws! But they often contain artefacts. This had a couple of 'sausage' shaped ditches in the top containing a few Mesolithic flints. Upright scale is 1m.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology Throwback to mind-bending year 2016 Black Cat Quarries A1, Beds England. Balls to Late Neolithic flints, Neo Grooved bits, Anglian pot noodles, annoying treethrow with Meso flints in (grrr) after -9C overnight.
WARNING: Quarries cause PTSD, avoid if you can! 😱
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For #FindsFriday and #FlintFriday a beautiful Mousterian spearpoint 🤩. Made by Neanderthals between 52 and 40.000 BP near Esbeek. It is the largest Neanderthal site in the Netherlands, discovered by Piet van Gisbergen. In 20 yrs he found over 5500 artefacts. Acquired @rmoudheden.bsky.social in 2025
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Photo showing a stone core from different angles with flakes refitted back onto it. Black background and scale of 5 cm.
Image showing refit group 33 from Lokalalei 2C, four views demonstrating the sequence of removals.
Image showing schematic of Refit group 33 removals, and a table giving data on refitted pieces and pieces missing.
#FlintFriday*
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Every time I return to Lokalalei 2C, my mind is blown afresh: a uniquely intact Oldowan stone tool assemblage, with 59 refit groups across more than 2600 lithics (12%), dating to❗🪨 2.34-2.26 MILLION YEARS AGO 🪨❗
*actually porphyritic basalt
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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3/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Friday
#FluoriteFriday
#FossilFriday
#VolcanoFriday
#FortressFriday
#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday
#FlintFriday
#VikingFriday
#RomanRoadsFriday
#PharaohFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
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Remembering this for #flintfriday!
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Knapped stone tools, a burnt bone fragment, marine shells, and beads made from ostrich eggshell and glass.
For a combined #FlintFriday & #FindsFriday, here are some finds from Later Stone Age Wolwekraal Nature Reserve, South Africa.
The lithics were made locally, but marine shells, beads and other artefacts indicate contact and exchange as far as the coast.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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Selection of some good Neolithic books, a replica black pottery bowl, cooking pot, a fletched leaf-shaped arrowhead and selective grey flint tools on top of the book covers. We could be sat around the warm fire chatting in around 3800 BCE. What's in the stew?
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology Bit lazy today so cheating: some Neolithic replicas & good books. Early Neolithic bowl by @pottedhistory.bsky.social and flint tools by @ancientcraftuk.bsky.social - part of my community teaching kits before #LongCOVID carnage struck. Stew is cooking c3800 BCE
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This Neolithic end scraper came from a pit packed with artefacts in the New Forest. The pit is part of a wider cluster, probably representing seasonal activity. These deposits may mark the closing of individual episodes of activity at a site revisited over generations.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday
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3/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Friday
#FluoriteFriday
#FossilFriday
#VolcanoFriday
#FortressFriday
#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday
#FlintFriday
#VikingFriday
#RomanRoadsFriday
#PharaohFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
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3/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Friday
#FluoriteFriday
#FossilFriday
#VolcanoFriday
#FortressFriday
#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday
#FlintFriday
#VikingFriday
#RomanRoadsFriday
#PharaohFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
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🪨🪓A primitive Early Mesolithic c.10,000-8,000 BC flint tranchet adze 80x55mm. Once belonged to the first people to occupy the region after the last Ice Age, used for woodworking.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Prehistory #Mesolithic #Wirral
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Prehistoric barbed and tanged arrowheads found in the Liverpool area. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Liverpool. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Prehistory #Liverpool
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🪨Neolithic small pointed end flint axehead/elongate chisel tool 80mmx51mm. In the style of the Michelsberg Culture most probably used for small scale wood working. The earliest farmers would have been wealthy people, trading their knowledge & tools #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral
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🪨🏹It’s teeny, it’s tiny, a Mesolithic flint arrowhead 18x11mm.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Mesolithic #Prehistory #Wirral
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Stone axehead with a polished blade. A black box overlaid indicates one trace of use wear identified during analysis.
Is this one of West Africa's first multi-tools? #FlintFriday
Analysis of Ground Stone Axes from Later #StoneAge (c.13,000–12,000 years ago) Nigeria indicates they were used for many different tasks, such as wood working, butchery/bone working and digging.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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3/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Friday
#FluoriteFriday
#FossilFriday
#VolcanoFriday
#FortressFriday
#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday
#FlintFriday
#VikingFriday
#RomanRoadsFriday
#PharaohFriday
#PhoenicianFriday
#PhallusFriday (Archaeology only)
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Mesolithic flint chisel which was found at Woodwalton Fen in Cambridgeshire. Now part of the collections at Peterborough City Museum. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #Prehistory #Cambridgeshire
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Three polished stone axes, three flint tools (an arrowhead, drill and scrape) and two bone awls.
Stone and bone tools from c. 5375 cal BC Eilsleben, Germany #FindsFriday #FlintFriday
Whilst the stone axes clearly reflect Neolithic traditions, the flint and bone tools point to contact with local Mesolithic foragers on Europe's Neolithic frontier.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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🪨Large Neolithic black flint core. The flake removal is in the style of Central Continental Europe, indicative of the Michelsberg Culture. Evidence of the first farmers migrating from Europe and settling in the interior of Wirral #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic
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Book cover (Archaeopress), Roman 'bustum' burial in a jar. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Rubbish-Disposal-Norton-Yorkshire/dp/1789698383
Very fine flint oblique arrowhead, Late Neolithic c 3000 BCE.
Very fine Early Bronze Age flint thumbnail scraper knapped around all edges c 2500 BCE.
Post-Medieval gunflint manuctured in Norfolk, c 1800 ACE.
#FlintFriday #FindsFriday #Archaeology You may have Romans everywhere (dead) especially during the Roman period (sic) but flints still pop up:
- Late Neolithic oblique arrowhead 3000 BCE
- Early Bronze Age thumbnail scraper 2500 BCE
- Post-Medieval gunflint 1800 ACE
Norton, North Yorkshire, England
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🔥I am the fire starter! Two small cones of radiating iron pyrite, essentials in the #Mesolithic fire-making kit of the Early Mesolithic c.10,000-8,000 BC. Struck with a piece of flint to produce sparks and ignite dry bark & grass #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral
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One of the prehistoric galleries at Grime’s Graves - a Neolithic flint mine, near Thetford in Norfolk. Under the care of English Heritage, visitors can descend nine metres into one of the prehistoric mine shafts! 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #GrimesGraves #Norfolk
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Roughly triangular flint flake, grey-brown with white flaw chalky inclusions.
Mesolithic kid in the camp, bashing a hazel nut. What else did they get up to? Making flint tools?
Typical Late Mesolithic artefact assemblage, c 5000 - 3800 BCE. North Yorkshire, England.
Sketch doodle of making a flint microlith as an arrow barb or point.
#FlintFriday #FindsFriday #Archaeology Apprentice at work? Late Mesolithic triangular flint. Conjecture, but sense of somebody working to a visual shape (triangular microlith) but not by the usual rules (more info in the pic). Other microliths on the rescue site are perfect. Somebody trying hard?
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Resharing for #FindsFriday and #FlintFriday, its a massive overstruck flake that took most of the core with it. An ancient Neanderthal accident and so a brilliant part of our teaching collection. #PaPa🦣🏺
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