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Debitage

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, debitage means: Stone debris produced when tools are made or reshaped by flaking.

In Turkish: yontmataş üretim artığı

How it is used

Usually a collective noun; waste from production can reveal techniques and working areas.

Example sentences

  1. Dense debitage around the hearth suggested repeated toolmaking nearby.

    Production waste helps locate an activity rather than a finished object.

  2. The analyst sorted debitage by raw material and flaking features.

    The debris can preserve choices made during manufacture.

Common collocations

  • lithic debitage
  • analyse debitage
  • artifactAn object made or shaped by people, such as a tool, coin, weapon or piece of jewellery, especially one studied for what it reveals about the past.
  • archaeologyThe study of the human past through the material remains people left behind, such as buildings, tools, pottery, bones and traces in the soil.

More terms: Archaeology Basics

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