In the sequence of cultural stages first proposed for the archaeology of the Americas by Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips in 1958, the Lithic stage was the earliest period of human occupation in the Americas, as post-glacial hunter gatherers spread through the Americas. The stage derived its name from the first appearance of Lithic flaked stone tools . The term Paleo-Indian is an alternative, generally indicating much the same period.
11-468: [REDACTED] Look up lithic or lithics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lithic may refer to: Relating to stone tools Lithic analysis , the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts Lithic core , the part of a stone which has had flakes removed from it Lithic flake , the portion of a rock removed to make
22-532: A lithic stage is based upon data recovered from sites in South America, where such crude tools have been found and dated to more than 20,000 years ago. In North America, the time encompasses the Paleo-Indian period , which subsequently is divided into more specific time terms, such as Early Lithic stage or Early Paleo-Indians , and Middle Paleo-Indians or Middle Lithic stage . Examples include
33-511: A significant component of (above) lithic fragments Lithic stage , the North American prehistoric period before 10,000 years ago See also [ edit ] Stone Age Paleolithic Mesolithic Neolithic Stone carving Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lithic . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
44-590: A tool Lithic reduction , the process of removing flakes from a stone to make a tool Lithic technology , the array of techniques to produce tools from stone Lithic fragment (geology) , pieces of rock, eroded to sand size, and now sand grains in a sedimentary rock Lithic sandstone , sandstone with a significant component of (above) lithic fragments Lithic stage , the North American prehistoric period before 10,000 years ago See also [ edit ] Stone Age Paleolithic Mesolithic Neolithic Stone carving Topics referred to by
55-412: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages lithic [REDACTED] Look up lithic or lithics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lithic may refer to: Relating to stone tools Lithic analysis , the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts Lithic core ,
66-568: Is the most widely used term for the succeeding stage, but in the periodization of pre-Columbian Peru , the Cotton Pre-Ceramic may be used. As in the Norte Chico civilization , cultivated cotton seems to have been very important in economic and power relations, from around 3200 BCE . Archeologist Alex Krieger has documented hundreds of sites that have yielded crude, percussion-flaked tools. The most convincing evidence for
77-424: The stone technology : (1) unspecialized and thy largely unformulated core and flake industries, with percussion the dominant and perhaps only technique employed, and (2) industries exhibiting more advanced "blade" techniques of stoneworking, with specialized fluted or unfluted lanceolate points the most characteristic artifact types. Throughout South America, there are stone tool traditions of the lithic stage, such as
88-503: The "fluted fishtail", that reflect localized adaptations to the diverse habitats of the continent. The indications and timing of the end of the Lithic stage vary between regions. The use of textiles , fired pottery , and start of the gradual replacement of hunter gatherer lifestyles with agriculture and domesticated animals would all be factors. End dates vary, but are around 5000 to 3000 BCE in many areas. The Archaic stage
99-419: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lithic&oldid=901721185 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lithic stage This stage was conceived as embracing two major categories of
110-429: The part of a stone which has had flakes removed from it Lithic flake , the portion of a rock removed to make a tool Lithic reduction , the process of removing flakes from a stone to make a tool Lithic technology , the array of techniques to produce tools from stone Lithic fragment (geology) , pieces of rock, eroded to sand size, and now sand grains in a sedimentary rock Lithic sandstone , sandstone with
121-408: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lithic . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lithic&oldid=901721185 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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