| 单词 | pebble chopper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspebble chopper pebble chopper n. Archaeology a simple tool with a cutting edge, made by striking a few flakes from a pebble (cf. pebble tool n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of flintstonec1400 celt1748 fairy hammer1815 axe1851 flint-flake1851 stone-axe1864 flake-knife1865 scraper1865 thumb-flint1865 tool-stone1865 saddle quern1867 fabricator1872 grattoir1872 hammer-stone1872 tribrach1873 flake1875 hand-axe1878 pick1888 turtle-back1890 racloir1892 eolith1895 pebble chopper1895 palaeotalith1897 tranchet1899 point1901 pygmy flint1907 microlith1908 Gravette1911 keeled scraper1911 lissoir1911 coup de poing1912 end-scraper1915 burin1916 rostro-carinate1919 tortoise core1919 blade1921 axe-adze1925 petit tranchet1926 tournette1927 pebble tool1931 raclette1932 biface1934 cleaver1935 thumbnail scraper1937 microblade1959 linguate1966 1895 Amer. Anthropologist 8 328 They still practiced [sic] edging their hard pebble-choppers..by seizing them with both hands—the more accurately to direct them—and whacking them until chipped sharp obliquely against other stones. 1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. v. 115 Some of these flakes were struck from cores and were not simply the waste flakes removed in preparing the pebble-chopper. 2003 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 18 July 22 More than a million years separates the pebble chopper from the hand axe. < as lemmas |
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