What Does Macrolith Mean?

What Does Macrolith Mean?

/ ˈmæk rəˌlɪθ / PHONETIC RESPELLING. ? College Level. noun Archaeology. a stone tool about 1 foot (30 centimeters) long.

What is Macrolith?

a massive tool (ax, pick, gouge) made from a flint nodule worked over by flaking on two sides with crude chips. Macroliths were widespread in the early Neolithic and somewhat in the late Neolithic in much of Europe and in Australia and Tierra del Fuego.

What is the meaning of Microlithis?

: a tiny blade tool especially of the Mesolithic usually in a geometric shape (such as that of a triangle) and often set in a bone or wooden haft.

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