What Kinds of Stone Tools Do Archaeologists Recognize?

Question: What Kinds of Stone Tools Do Archaeologists Recognize?

Answer: Since stone tools were the first kind of tool made by humans (well, the first one for which we have wide evidence--bone and wood would have long ago disappeared), there are numerous categories of stone tools used by archaeologists. Here are some tool names, and some related information.

Stone Tool Types

• Adze
• Arrowhead
• Artefact
• Atlatl
• Axe
• Projectile point
• Hammerstone

Related Terms

Lithics
Assemblage
Core
Debitage
Flintknapping
Folsom
Geofact
Jabrudian industries
Lithics
Material culture
Micoquian industries
Microlith

Scholars:
François Bordes