TechnologyHow Did They Make and Use Tools?

Survival of Evidence

• Biased Evidence• Decayed Artifacts may leave evidence behind

Left: Sutton Hoo ship imprint

Right: Wetwang Slack

Indication of tools by artwork

Detection of tools by their uses

Mines

Best-known mines are from the Neolithic

Period

Flint Mine at Grimes Graves

Quarries

Quarries were used to mine stone

Stone Tool Manufacture Tools are made by removing material from a

Core

-Cortex

Chopper

Hand-Axe

Flake

Burin/Scraper

Replication

Refitting

Microwear Studies

-microflaking

Other Materials Bone

Antler

Leather

Wood

Plant and Animal Fibers Textiles

Firing and Pyrotechnology

Pottery Pot Tempers

Faience and Glass

Archaeometallurgy

Non-Ferrous Metals

Alloying

Casting

Plating

Iron