indústria lítica lascada e polida

English translation: knapped and polished stone (flint) industry

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Portuguese term or phrase:indústria lítica lascada e polida
English translation:knapped and polished stone (flint) industry
Entered by: Lindsay Spratt

18:15 Nov 22, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Anthropology / Sambaquis
Portuguese term or phrase: indústria lítica lascada e polida
This is about the first people to populate Espírito Santo who made the sambaquis. I am just struggling to translate this phase succiently! Thanks for your help!

"Os primeiros ocupantes da região litorânea sul do estado seriam grupos com ênfase econômica na coleta e pesca que se estabeleceram por volta de 4.000 A.P. em Anchieta. São formadores dos sambaquis, sítios arqueológicos caracterizados pelo predomínio de conchas de moluscos em relação aos demais vestígios. Ocorrem em diversos pontos do litoral capixaba, assim como às margens de alguns rios. No Espírito Santo, ocorrem nas margens de rios e por toda costa litorânea, apresentando ***indústria lítica lascada (facas e raspadores) e polida*** (machados). Também são encontrados artefatos ósseos, como pontas de flecha e dentes perfurados".
Lindsay Spratt
France
Local time: 19:09
knapped and polished stone (flint) industry
Explanation:
knapped and polished stone (flint) industry

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http://www.belchalwell.org.uk/artifacts-flint.asp

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Or more of a layman's term might be "flaked"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithic_reduction
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Nick Taylor
Local time: 18:09
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Thanks, Nick!
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Summary of answers provided
5knapped and polished stone (flint) industry
Nick Taylor
3 +1flint stone and polished stone work
Ivan Rocha, CT
4lithic industry (cut flint and polished stone)
Muriel Vasconcellos


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flint stone and polished stone work


Explanation:
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Ivan Rocha, CT
Canada
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

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agree  Margarida Ataide
4 mins
  -> Grato, I.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
knapped and polished stone (flint) industry


Explanation:
knapped and polished stone (flint) industry

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http://www.belchalwell.org.uk/artifacts-flint.asp

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-22 20:51:45 GMT)
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Or more of a layman's term might be "flaked"

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-22 20:51:51 GMT)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithic_reduction

Nick Taylor
Local time: 18:09
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks, Nick!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: Your answer misses the point - anthropologists speak of the 'lithic industry'.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
lithic industry (cut flint and polished stone)


Explanation:
You need to capture the word 'industry', which is a key point in archeology. Note this explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_industry
An archaeological industry, normally just "industry", is the name given in the study of prehistory to a consistent range of assemblages connected with a single product, such as the Langdale axe industry. Where the assemblages contain evidence of a variety of items and behaviours, the more correct term is "archaeological culture", although both terms are often used to describe the same assemblage by different sources. They may also be referred to as "lithic industries" where the products are stone tools or weapons.

54,800 hits for "lithic industry"

books.google.com/books?isbn=0195376145...Sharon R. Steadman, Gregory McMahon - 2011 - History - 1200 pages
The lithic industry is characterized by fine bullet cores and pressure-flaked ... Likewise, grinding stones, and other ground and polished stone artifacts, ...

www.corsica.net/corsica/uk/regsart/sartene/sartmuse.
Recent Neolithic (350O - 3000 B.C): Very beautiful stone working, which is cut ... Island Chalcolithic (Brass Age) (2600 - 2000 B.C): **Lithic industry** and first metallurgy. Points of arrows in flint, obsidian and above all rhyolite, polished axes. ...

en.domotica.net/Boian_cultureCached
The use of lithic technology occurred throughout this culture's existence attested ... of debitage found next to various types of **shaped flint and polished stone tools.** ... circle Timber circle Tor enclosure Technology Grooved ware **Lithic industries** ...

www.culture.gouv.fr/fr/arcnat/harsova/en/f-dobro2.htmCached
At the beginning of their evolution, lithic tools are indicated by the presence of microliths, next to which various types of **cut flint and polished stone ...**

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Note that I added 'cut flint and polished stone' in parentheses in order to preserve 'lithic industry', which is important and the main point.

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Relevant examples of 'cut fllint':

www.answers.com › Library › Entertainment & ArtsCached
It has been worked since the Palaeolithic period, when man learnt how to **cut flint** and related hard stones to produce tools and weapons. ...

books.google.com/books?id=XKYVAQAAIAAJ...1899 - Language Arts & Disciplines
... for Polishing and Sharpening Needles (Palaeo lithic or Unpolished Stone A^e). b. ... **Cut Flint**. 7. Fragment of Harpoon o. One end of a Bow (?). 11. ...

www.archive.org/stream/.../maninsearchofhis032786mbp_djvu.t...
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The roughly cut flint nodules of the AbbevilHan 86 41. ...... This age of chipped stone begins with the crude tools of the Lower Palaeo- lithic, continues with the ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1906.8.4.02a00180/pdf
lithic to neolithic, origin of neolithic ...... the sea “primitive men had **cut flint** in .... lithic man at the Victoria Falls of the. Zambesi. ...

www.archive.org/stream/.../cu31924029914714_djvu.txtWe must add, however, that neither with the Palaeolithic nor with the ...... three admirably polished lance-heads, and some **finely cut flint-darts. ...**

www.archive.org/stream/.../archaeologicalj39unkngoog_djvu.t...
It is an extremely fine example of flint panel-work, or cut flint worked iuto ...... many other allusions to mega- lithic monuments occur also in Scripture, ...

The Emergence of Civilization: From Hunting and Gathering to ...
d76.nopremium.pl/?...
wadi of that name, manifests lithic parallels with Tell Mureybet on the ..... 'Mureybet adzes' **in cut flint** have disappeared, though a fragment of polished ...

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 10:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Nick Taylor: Flint is never "cut" it is flaked or knapped by percussion. Sorry - cant agree with you I have taught lithic technology for 10 years and cutting is a different technique entirely - even generically.
5 mins
  -> I was only copying what I found on the Internet. While 'knapped' is undoubtedly more precise, semantically it's a subset of cutting. I have posted a number of references to 'cut flint'.
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