lithic

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Lithic may refer to:

• Relating to stone tools
• Lithic analysis, the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts
• Lithic core, the part of a stone which has had flakes removed from it
• Lithic flake, the portion of a rock removed to make a tool
• Lithic reduction, the process of removing flakes from a stone to make a tool
• Lithic technology, the array of techniques to produce tools from stone
• Lithic fragment (geology), pieces of rock, eroded to sand size, and now sand grains in a sedimentary rock
• Lithic sandstone, sandstone with a significant component of (above) lithic fragments
• Lithic stage, the North American prehistoric period before 10,000 years ago