Lexicographical Neighbors of Flakers
Literary usage of Flakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Thus the Kimberley aborigines, although they perhaps lacked the ideal material
for pressure flakers, possessed an alternative that was almost as good. ..."
2. Indian Village Site and Cemetery Near Madisonville, Ohio by Earnest Albert Hooton, Charles Clark Willoughby (1920)
"The longer pressure flakers were much less common on this site than the punches.
... These long flakers may have been used without a haft, but some of the ..."
3. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1910)
"198) may have been used as flakers. The fine flakes made by this process with
those or similar flakers were also found (Plate ..."
4. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations by Royal Society of Canada (1890)
"... from careful observation of some of their unfinished work, to the opinion that
copper was in special request in the operations of the flint-flakers. ..."
5. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1897)
"Various arrow flakers have been found among surviving savages. ... 50, which
resembles the alleged bone flakers from the prehistoric cemetery of ..."
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