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  2. Australian Aboriginal artefacts - Wikipedia

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    [28] [29] Cutting tools were made by hammering a core stone into flakes. [29] [30] Grinding stones can include millstones and mullers. [31] Quartzite is one of the main materials Aboriginal people used to create flakes but slate and other hard stone materials were also used. [29] [32] [33] Flakes can be used to create spear points and blades or ...

  3. Tachylite in Victorian archaeological sites - Wikipedia

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    Tachylite is an unusual and relatively rare stone used in making flaked stone tools, and which is found in Aboriginal archaeological sites in Victoria, Australia. [1]It was sourced from Spring Hill near Lauriston, Victoria, [2] [3] and there is another historical reference to a source at Green Hill near Trentham, Victoria, but the exact location has not been confirmed.

  4. Stone tool - Wikipedia

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    Complex stone tools were used by the Gunditjmara of western Victoria [27] until relatively recently. [28] Many examples are now held in museums. [27] [26] Flaked stone tools were made by extracting a sharp fragment of stone from a larger piece, called a core, by hitting it with a "hammerstone". Both the flakes and the hammerstones could be used ...

  5. Kartan industry - Wikipedia

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    Some of the Kartan tools are "horsehoof" cores, defined by Josephine Flood as having a "flat base, an overhanging, step-flaked edge, and a high, domed shape like a horse's hoof"; their function is unexplained, and while they might have been used as choppers, they could simply be waste cores from the production of flake tools. [6]

  6. Aboriginal sites of Victoria - Wikipedia

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    These stone flakes represent the tools Aboriginal people used, such as knives, spear points, scrapers and awls, and the waste material left behind when they were made. Commonly referred to as stone artefact scatters such sites can be found on the surface or exposed by ploughing or erosion, or through careful archaeological excavation.

  7. Flake tool - Wikipedia

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    The beginning stone is called the flake lithic core. There are three steps to lithic reduction: Hard hammer percussion is the first step. It involves knocking off the larger flakes to achieve the desired lithic core for the flake tool. In using hard hammer percussion the flake tools were made by taking metamorphic or igneous rock such as ...

  8. Hornfels in Victorian archaeological sites - Wikipedia

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    Hornfels is an unusual and relatively rare stone used in making flaked stone tools, and which is found in Aboriginal archaeological sites in Victoria, Australia. [1] A sample of places where it has been found can be seen in the geographic section below.

  9. Kimberley points - Wikipedia

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    Kimberley points are a type of Aboriginal stone tool made by pressure flaking [1] both discarded glass and stone. [2] Best known for the points made of glass, these artifacts are an example of adaptive reuse of Western technology by a non-western culture. They are often used as an indicator that an archaeological site is a post-contact ...