toolmaking industry

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• toolmaking — UK US (also tool making) /ˈtuːlˌmeɪkɪŋ/ noun [U] PRODUCTION ► the activity of producing tools: »a toolmaking factory/workshop »the toolmaking industry »Some of the materials were unsuitable for tool making …   Financial and business terms

• Acheulean industry — Stone tool industry of the Lower Paleolithic Period characterized by bifacial stone tools with round cutting edges and typified especially by an almond shaped (amygdaloid) flint hand ax measuring 8–10 in. (20–25 cm) in length and flaked over its… …   Universalium

• Solutrean industry — Short lived stone tool industry that flourished 17,000–21,000 years ago in southwestern France (e.g., at La Solutré and Laugerie Haute) and in nearby areas. The industry is of special interest because of its particularly fine workmanship. In… …   Universalium

• Chopper chopping-tool industry — ▪ prehistoric technology       certain stone tool traditions of Asia, probably of later Pleistocene age, characterized by roughly worked pebble chopper (q.v.) tools. These traditions include the Choukoutienian industry of China (associated with… …   Universalium

• Fauresmith industry — ▪ prehistoric toolmaking       a sub Saharan African stone tool industry dating from the early part of the upper Pleistocene, about 75,000 to 100,000 years ago. The Fauresmith industry is largely contemporaneous with the Sangoan industry (q.v.),… …   Universalium

• Oldowan industry — Stone tool industry of the early Paleolithic (beginning с 2.5 million years ago) characterized by crudely worked pebble tools. Oldowan tools, made of quartz, quartzite, or basalt, are chipped in two directions to form simple, rough implements for …   Universalium

• Mousterian industry — Tool culture traditionally associated with the Neanderthals in Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa during the early fourth (Würm) glacial period (с 40,000 BC). The Mousterian tool assemblage included small hand axes made from disk shaped… …   Universalium

• Magdalenian culture — Stone tool industry and artistic tradition of Upper Paleolithic Europe. It was named after the type site, La Madeleine in southwestern France. The Magdalenians lived some 11,000–17,000 years ago, at a time when reindeer, wild horses, and bison… …   Universalium

• Aurignacian culture — Stone tool industry and artistic tradition of Upper Paleolithic Europe, named after the village of Aurignac in southern France where the tradition was first identified. The Aurignacian period dates to 35,000–15,000 BC. Its tools included scrapers …   Universalium

• hand tool — any tool or implement designed for manual operation. * * * Introduction  any of the implements used by craftsmen in manual operations, such as chopping, chiseling, sawing, filing, or forging. Complementary tools, often needed as auxiliaries to… …   Universalium

• technology, history of — Introduction       the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …   Universalium