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Identification of Prehistoric handaxe

1) What is a cortex in stone tool ?

primary flake Outer surface

2) Who investigated the differences between unheated and heated chert?

Purdy and Brooks

St. Acheul

F. C. J.Spurrell

Andre Leroi –Gourhan

3) Why refitting is important in stone tools ?

because it allows us to follow the stages of the knapper’s craft

Refitting provides a dynamic perspective on the spatial distribution of tools

both a and b

Quiz_handaxe.html none of them

4) What was the method used to remove the flute or channel flake?

involves pressing the flake out, downwards

involves pressing the flake out, upwards

involves pressing and heating the flake out

involves using force

5) What is refitting?

put flakes and tool differently

Put flakes and tool together

same as replication

knapper

6) Who has done remarkable work in the Old World regarding stone tool replication?

Francois Bordes

Donald Crabtree

Galton

Henry

7) When did Mesolithic period reach on its peak?

around 10,000 years ago

around 15,000 years ago

around 8,000 years ago

around 20,000 years ago

8) In which period blade technology became dominant ?

Lower Paleolithic period

Neolithic period

upper Paleolithic period

none of them

9) `Levalloise technique` named after a site in a____suburb .

Paris

Tanzania

Kenya

India

10) The best known examples like so- called Oldowan tools are from which place ?

Tanzania

India

Eqypt

Greece

11) Acheulian tools were produced by __flaking

percussion

heating

grinding

picking

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