| For millennia people have been producing and discarding lithic tools in the North Carolina Piedmont. | The | For many of these tools we can only surmise their actual usage based on the study of lithics. | ||
| In the North Carolina Piedmont, development is rampant. |
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The bull dozer blade often uncovers (and destroys) ancient lithic tools manufactured a long time ago. | Method | It is important to recognize that these artifacts are tools and that their association with their location and other tools found with them is important. |
| If you find and/or collect these tools, it is important to document as closely as possible their location and association. | of | Otherwise, the valuable information they can provide for archaeology will be lost, forever. | ||
| Lithic | Some of the basic tool types that are found at these kinds of sites are bifacial tools, unifacial tools, pottery, cobbles, un-retouched blades and flakes, and polished or carved stone. | Artifact | ||
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Who needs Trees and Streams?...
 ... I mean besides humans... |
 by sliding your mouse pointer over the forested scene below. Click on the artifacts to see more about each type or click on the above basic tool types. |
