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Burin (lithic flake) and Paleolithic

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Difference between Burin (lithic flake) and Paleolithic

Burin (lithic flake) vs. Paleolithic

Burin from the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) (ca. 29,000–22,000 BP) In the field of lithic reduction, a burin (from the French burin, meaning "cold chisel" or modern engraving burin) is a type of handheld lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which prehistoric humans used for engraving or for carving wood or bone. The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.

Similarities between Burin (lithic flake) and Paleolithic

Burin (lithic flake) and Paleolithic have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Archaeology, Lithic flake, North America, Prehistory, Upper Paleolithic.

Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Lithic flake

In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,"Andrefsky, W. (2005) Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Prehistory

Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.

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Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic, Late Stone Age) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.

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Burin (lithic flake) and Paleolithic Comparison

Burin (lithic flake) has 18 relations, while Paleolithic has 288. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 1.63% = 5 / (18 + 288).

References

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