单词 | petit tranchet |
释义 | petit tranchetn. Archaeology. A small stone artefact of Mesolithic and Neolithic cultures, whose end forms a broad, chisel-like cutting edge, typically used as an arrowhead; a small tranchet. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of flintstonec1400 celt1748 fairy hammer1815 axe1851 flint-flake1851 stone-axe1864 flake-knife1865 scraper1865 thumb-flint1865 tool-stone1865 saddle quern1867 fabricator1872 grattoir1872 hammer-stone1872 tribrach1873 flake1875 hand-axe1878 pick1888 turtle-back1890 racloir1892 eolith1895 pebble chopper1895 palaeotalith1897 tranchet1899 point1901 pygmy flint1907 microlith1908 Gravette1911 keeled scraper1911 lissoir1911 coup de poing1912 end-scraper1915 burin1916 rostro-carinate1919 tortoise core1919 blade1921 axe-adze1925 petit tranchet1926 tournette1927 pebble tool1931 raclette1932 biface1934 cleaver1935 thumbnail scraper1937 microblade1959 linguate1966 1926 R. A. Smith Guide Antiq. Stone Age (Brit. Mus.) (3rd ed.) 162 Transverse arrowheads (petits tranchets) date at least from Shell-Mound times, though they seem to have had a long life in Europe. 1931 Man 31 23 Excluding the petit tranchet arrowhead as being a survival of the Kitchen Midden culture, and the tanged triangular-sectioned passage grave as being local to Scandinavia, there remain only seven main varieties. 1939 W. B. Wright Tools & Man ix. 76 The microliths are predominantly trapezes or petit tranchets for use as arrow heads. 1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles ii. 44 An arrowhead of the ‘derived petit-tranchet’ type. 1963 H. N. Savory in I. L. Foster & L. Alcock Culture & Environment iii. 33 In South Wales, the main overlap of this new element was with the Western Neolithic rather than the Beaker Culture, as is shown by the regular appearance of petit-tranchet derivatives in surface collections where leaf arrowheads predominate. 1985 Antiquaries Jrnl. June 494 Petit-tranchet derivative ‘arrowheads’ formed 2.8 per cent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1926 |
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