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  • noun archaeology The sharp-edged waste material left over when someone creates a stone tool.

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  • a chip(s) off the old block

    May 13, 2010

  • The sound of persistent sharp tapping

    Provoke us to know what is happening

    Flint flakes and a severed edge,

    The litter of debitage,

    Are signs a boy scout’s been caught knapping.

    March 23, 2018