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- noun Plural form of
microlith .
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The shelter floor was littered with tiny stone tools known as microliths, and on the back wall was a beautiful human figure in red ocher, a classic image by an anonymous painter of the San people, the ancient inhabitants of southern Africa.
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Archaeologists and volunteers at the site have also recovered the earliest so-called "Late Mesolithic" tool kit found in Great Britain, which includes triangle - and crescent-shaped microliths produced from bladelets struck from small platform cores.
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Chronological and geographical distribution of recognized taxa of Homo. pared core technology; Mode 4 being lamellar or blade technology; and Mode 5 being microliths.
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The presence of LSA, has been described from Bed V microliths, bladelets, microblade cores, and at Mumba Rock Shelter,
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At Katanda, a series of elements in the MSA assemblages, such as barbed and unbarbed bone points has been microliths, that would indicate LSA recovered from secure stratigraphic context admixture.
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