Lithic Flake - Anatomy & Terminology
Wikipedia's entry for the lithic flake is pretty comprehensive and includes onward links to many of the terms used:
Blade:
Bulb of Percussion:
Burin Flake:
Conchoidal Fracture:
Core (Nucleus):
Cortex:
Debitage:
Eraillure Flake:
Hammerstone:
Hertzian Cone:
Lithic Reduction:
Prismatic Blade:
Spall:
Striking Platform:
Termination (of Flakes):
Feather/monotomic termination
Hinge termination
Overshot/outrepasse/plunging termination
Perverse termination
Step/snap termination
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