What is flint?

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Flint Facts ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why did we begin to use flint tools? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],See how regular the side of this flint are, after being knapped

The Palaeolithic ,[object Object],[object Object]

But they made other tools too… Borer Chopper Scraper

Mesolithic ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Microliths ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Scrapers ,[object Object],[object Object]

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Neolithic and Bronze Age ,[object Object],[object Object]

Axes The surface of some axes are highly polished.

Arrowheads Early Neolithic Leaf-shaped Late Neolithic Oblique-shaped Late Neolithic Chisel-shaped Late Neolithic Hollow-based Early-Bronze Age Barbed-and-tanged Flint arrowheads would have been attached to A wooden shaft. They were made in a range of shapes that changed over time

Neolithic and Bronze Age scrapers

But it isn’t all about the tools ,[object Object],[object Object],Flint Cores: the centre of a flint nodule that has been discarded after removing usable pieces of flint Waste flakes: pieces struck from a nodule of flint and not worked into tools

What is flint?

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