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In archaeology, in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts. It has been intensely studied and many archaeological industries are identified almost entirely by the lithic analysis of the precise style of their tools and the chaîne…
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The extracted context around Lithic reduction shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Lithic reduction → Abrupt Terminations, American Antiquity, Analysis, Andrefsky, Archaeological Sites, Archaeopress, Australian Approaches, Brian Patrick, British Archaeological Reports International, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Classification, Cotterell, Down Under, Flakes, In Clarkson, ISBN, JSTOR, Kamminga, Kooyman Another extracted example is Lithic reduction → By, For, GIUR, In, Kuhn's, Kuhn's GIUR, One, Original Scraper Mass Calculator, Since, The, There. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 63 structured relationships around Lithic reduction. Examples in this analysis include Lithic reduction → is a → process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts and chert → instance of → Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithic reduction | is a | process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts | 0.90 | text |
| chert | instance of | Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone | 0.80 | text |
| flint | instance of | Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone | 0.80 | text |
| obsidian | instance of | Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone | 0.80 | text |
| and chalcedony | instance of | Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone | 0.80 | text |
| as well as other fine-grained stone material | instance of | Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone | 0.80 | text |
| such as rhyolite | instance of | Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone | 0.80 | text |
| felsite | instance of | Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone | 0.80 | text |
| and quartzite | instance of | Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone | 0.80 | text |
| were used as a source material for producing stone tools | instance of | Cryptocrystalline or amorphous stone | 0.80 | text |
| basalt or quartzite | instance of | This is usually accomplished with abraiders made from a coarse-grained stone | 0.80 | text |
| stems | instance of | Sometimes basic features | 0.80 | text |
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For Lithic reduction, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Lithic reduction with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
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Source: Wikipedia — Lithic reduction · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout