tool making techniques

Question 1

hard hammer percussion

Answer 1

flakes about to be chipped off from core

tool partly completed as the core is worked

Question 2

who used hard hammer percussion?

Answer 2

oldowan abd Acheulian

Question 3

soft hammer percussion

Answer 3

a soft hammer made from bone is used to strike the core to remove flakes

Question 4

who used soft hammer percussion?

Answer 4

Mousterian and upper paleolithic

Question 5

pressure flaking

Answer 5

using an anter snall, carefully controlled flakes and chipped off from the blade

Question 6

who used pressure flaking?

Answer 6

Solutrean industry of the upper peleolithic

Question 7

punch blade

Answer 7

a hammer stone is hit against a antler or bone punch

this will chip blade and waste flakes away from the core which is retsed on a anvil stone

Question 8

who used punch blade

Answer 8

upper paleolithic

Question 9

levallois

Answer 9

a hammer stone is hit agaisnt a rock which will make a core from which the large flake was struke. the tool is removed as a single large flake