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Flint, the Glossary

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.^[1]

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Flint (rock)

Alonzo W. Pond

Alonzo W. Pond (1894–25 December 1986) was an American archaeologist.

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Amber

Amber is fossilized tree resin.

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Beach

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.

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Building material

Building material is material used for construction.

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Burgh Castle (Roman fortification)

Burgh Castle is the site of one of nine Roman Saxon Shore forts constructed in England around the 3rd century AD, to hold troops as a defence against Saxon raids up the rivers of the east and south coasts of southern Britain.

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Calcination

Calcination is thermal treatment of a solid chemical compound (e.g. mixed carbonate ores) whereby the compound is raised to high temperature without melting under restricted supply of ambient oxygen (i.e. gaseous O2 fraction of air), generally for the purpose of removing impurities or volatile substances and/or to incur thermal decomposition.

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Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral, formally Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, is the cathedral of the archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Cenomanian

The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock.

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Chert

Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2). Flint and Chert are fire making, lithics and sedimentary rocks.

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Chromophore

A chromophore is a molecule which absorbs light at a particular wavelength and emits color as a result.

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Clovis culture

The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present.

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Concretion

A concretion is a hard, compact mass formed by the precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between particles, and is found in sedimentary rock or soil. Flint and concretion are sedimentary rocks.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Cricket St Thomas

Cricket St Thomas is a parish in Somerset, England, situated in a valley between Chard and Crewkerne and was formerly within the South Somerset administrative district.

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Cristobalite

Cristobalite is a mineral polymorph of silica that is formed at very high temperatures.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Cryptocrystalline

Cryptocrystalline is a rock texture made up of such minute crystals that its crystalline nature is only vaguely revealed even microscopically in thin section by transmitted polarized light. Flint and Cryptocrystalline are lithics.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Demosponge

Demosponges (Demospongiae) are the most diverse class in the phylum Porifera.

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Diagenesis

Diagenesis is the process that describes physical and chemical changes in sediments first caused by water-rock interactions, microbial activity, and compaction after their deposition.

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Dobruja

Dobruja or Dobrudja (Dobrudzha or Dobrudža; Dobrogea, or; Zadunav"ya; Dobruca) is a geographical and historical region in Southeastern Europe that has been divided since the 19th century between the territories of Bulgaria and Romania.

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Don Crabtree

Don E. Crabtree (June 8, 1912 – November 16, 1980) was an American flintknapper and pioneering experimental archaeologist.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is an area in the East of England.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Ferrocerium

Ferrocerium (also known in Europe as Auermetall) is a synthetic pyrophoric alloy of mischmetal (cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, other trace lanthanides and some iron – about 95% lanthanides and 5% iron) hardened by blending in oxides of iron and/or magnesium. Flint and Ferrocerium are fire making.

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Fire making

Fire making, fire lighting or fire craft is the process of artificially starting a fire.

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Flint field

Flint fields (Feuersteinfelder) are large natural deposits of flint. Flint and flint field are flint (rock).

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Flint Ridge State Memorial

Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve is a Native American flint quarry located in Hopewell Township, Licking County, Ohio, about north of Brownsville at the intersection of Brownsville Road and Flint Ridge Road.

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Flintlock

Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint-striking ignition mechanism, the first of which appeared in Western Europe in the early 16th century.

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Flintlock mechanism

The flintlock mechanism is a type of lock used on muskets, rifles, and pistols from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

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Flushwork

In architecture, flushwork is decorative masonry work which combines on the same flat plane flint and ashlar stone.

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Framlingham Castle

Framlingham Castle is a castle in the market town of Framlingham, Suffolk, England.

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Frizzen

The frizzen, historically called the "hammer" or the steel, is an L-shaped piece of steel hinged at the front used in flintlock firearms.

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Funnelbeaker culture

The Funnel(-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK (Trichter(-rand-)becherkultur, Trechterbekercultuur; Tragtbægerkultur), was an archaeological culture in north-central Europe.

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Grime's Graves

Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England. Flint and Grime's Graves are lithics.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Hammerstone

In archaeology, a hammerstone is a hard cobble used to strike off lithic flakes from a lump of tool stone during the process of lithic reduction. Flint and hammerstone are lithics.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Hinge

A hinge is a mechanical bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them.

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History of gunpowder

Gunpowder is the first explosive to have been developed.

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Hopewell Township, Licking County, Ohio

Hopewell Township is one of the 25 townships of Licking County, Ohio, United States.

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Hypothesis

A hypothesis (hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

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Java applet

Java applets are small applications written in the Java programming language, or another programming language that compiles to Java bytecode, and delivered to users in the form of Java bytecode.

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Jura Mountains

The Jura Mountains are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the French–Swiss border.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

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Jutland

Jutland (Jylland, Jyske Halvø or Cimbriske Halvø; Jütland, Kimbrische Halbinsel or Jütische Halbinsel) is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein).

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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Knapping

Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration. Flint and Knapping are lithics.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Krzemionki

Krzemionki, also Krzemionki Opatowskie ("Opatów silica-mine"), is a Neolithic and early Bronze Age complex of flint mines for the extraction of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) banded flints located about eight kilometers north-east of the Polish city of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.

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Lägern

The Lägern (also spelled Lägeren; 866 m) is a wooded mountain of the Jura Mountains, stretching from Baden to Dielsdorf, about 15 km north-west of Zurich.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Marl

Marl is an earthy material rich in carbonate minerals, clays, and silt. Flint and Marl are sedimentary rocks.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Mischmetal (from Mischmetall – "mixed metal") is an alloy of rare-earth elements.

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Moldavian Plateau

The Moldavian Plateau (Podișul Moldovei) is a geographic area of the historical region of Moldavia, spanning nowadays the east and northeast of Romania, most of Moldova (except the south), and most of the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine (where it is known as the Pokuttyan-Bessarabian Upland).

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Mollusca

Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Nodule (geology)

In sedimentology and geology, a nodule is a small, irregularly rounded knot, mass, or lump of a mineral or mineral aggregate that typically has a contrasting composition, such as a pyrite nodule in coal, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphorite nodule in marine shale, from the enclosing sediment or sedimentary rock. Flint and nodule (geology) are sedimentary rocks.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Ohio History Connection

Ohio History Connection, formerly The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and Ohio Historical Society, is a nonprofit organization incorporated in 1885.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Paramoudra

Paramoudras, paramoudra flints, pot stones or potstones are flint nodules found mainly in parts of north-west Europe: Norfolk (United Kingdom), Ireland, Denmark, Spain and Germany.

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Paris Basin

The Paris Basin (Bassin parisien) is one of the major geological regions of France.

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Percussion cap

The percussion cap, percussion primer, or caplock, introduced in the early 1820s, is a type of single-use percussion ignition device for muzzle loader firearm locks enabling them to fire reliably in any weather condition.

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Pyrite

The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide). Flint and pyrite are fire making.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).

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Rügen

Rügen (Rani: Rȯjana, Rāna; Rugia, Ruegen) is Germany's largest island.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

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Roman brick

Roman brick is a type of brick used in ancient Roman architecture and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered, or a modern adaptation inspired by the ancient prototypes.

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Saxon Shore

The Saxon Shore (litus Saxonicum) was a military command of the Late Roman Empire, consisting of a series of fortifications on both sides of the Channel.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Flint and Sedimentary rock are sedimentary rocks.

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Silex

Silex is any of various forms of ground stone.

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Silicification

In geology, silicification is a petrification process in which silica-rich fluids seep into the voids of Earth materials, e.g., rocks, wood, bones, shells, and replace the original materials with silica (SiO2). Flint and silicification are sedimentary rocks.

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Silicon dioxide

Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.

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Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet

Sir Francis Howe Seymour Knowles, 5th Baronet (13 January 1886 – 4 April 1953) was an English anthropologist and the fifth of the Knowles baronets.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Spiennes

Spiennes (Spiene) is a sub-municipality of the city of Mons located in the province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium.

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Sponge spicule

Spicules are structural elements found in most sponges.

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Stone Age

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

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Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age. Flint and Stone tool are lithics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint

Also known as Flint (rock), Flint stone, Flints, Gunflint, Mineral flint, Natural flint.

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Flint, the Glossary

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Chert

Fire making

Flint (rock)

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