flake tool

American  

noun

1. a Paleolithic or later stone tool made from a flake struck from a larger core.

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flake tool Scientific  

1. A stone tool consisting of a flake that is often modified by further chipping or flaking. Although sharp-edged flakes removed in the production of core tools were presumably used as cutting tools by early humans, true flake tools are those that were purposefully removed from the core and then modified for a particular purpose. Flake tools include scrapers, awls, projectile points, and blades.

2. Compare core tool

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Etymology

Origin of flake tool

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

They took samples of sea-floor sediment and hauled up a barnacle-encrusted flake tool that they suggest dates from 10,000 years ago, when the sea floor on which it was found was dry land.

From Nature