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flake (lithic)

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This is a piece of stone known as a flake. Pieces like this would be knocked off a larger chunk of stone, known as a core, and could be used to as they were for cutting or could be modified by removing chips from their edges to make different tool types, such as scrapers or arrowheads.

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