The technique used to make the tranchet flake was used in the making of other tools as well, including tranchet axes ( characterized by their trapezoidal or triangular shape ) adzes, and even tranchet arrowheads.
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The technique used to make the tranchet flake was used in the making of other tools as well, including tranchet axes ( characterized by their trapezoidal or triangular shape ) adzes, and even tranchet arrowheads.
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The technique used to make the tranchet flake was used in the making of other tools as well, including tranchet axes ( characterized by their trapezoidal or triangular shape ) adzes, and even tranchet arrowheads.
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Abrasion apparently was not as damaging as the tranchet flake technique ( it kept more of the original tool or weapon intact ) and tools were less likely to break with edge-abrasion than with a tranchet flake.
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Abrasion apparently was not as damaging as the tranchet flake technique ( it kept more of the original tool or weapon intact ) and tools were less likely to break with edge-abrasion than with a tranchet flake.
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Other finds included flints, such as arrowheads ( tanged or side-notched ), finely denticulated sickle-blades, burins, scrapers, a few tranchet axes, obsidian, and green obsidian from an unknown source.
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Known as the tranchet technique that makes the tranchet flake, this term can be defined in two ways : first, it is the forming of a straight edge used to cut from the edge of the tranchet flake by taking off a large flat flake from the tip.
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Known as the tranchet technique that makes the tranchet flake, this term can be defined in two ways : first, it is the forming of a straight edge used to cut from the edge of the tranchet flake by taking off a large flat flake from the tip.
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Known as the tranchet technique that makes the tranchet flake, this term can be defined in two ways : first, it is the forming of a straight edge used to cut from the edge of the tranchet flake by taking off a large flat flake from the tip.
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Evidence of the activity of early man in the area was found when a Neolithic flint tranchet axe / adze ( 5 1 / 2 inches long ) dating from circa 3, 000 BC was dug up in the garden of Mulberry Cottage and this is now held in Reading Museum.
