New tool technique from Upper Paleolithic.

Could make blades by using a hammer-struck punch. After shaping the core into a pyramidal or cylindrical form, the toolmaker put a punch of antler, wood, or other hard material into positionand struck it with a hammer. Could make consistently shaped blades.

New technique from Upper Paleolithic.

Rather than using percussion to strike off flakes as in previous technologies, pressure flaking works by employing prssure with a bone, wood, or antler tool at the edge of the tool to remove small flakes. Usually be used in the final stages of retouching a tool.

Very small blades.

Often hafted or fitted into handles, one blade at a time or several blades together, to serve as spears, adzes, knives, and sickles.

Method of study in which reasoning is used to find out details of the past.

Used to determine how tools were made and what possibly used for. 

Aztec word for "spear-thrower"

Made of bone or antler.