chert
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- noun
- /tʃɜrt/
- Specialized
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sílex
- Chert is often found as smooth nodules embedded within layers of limestone.
- chert nodule
- flakes of chert
- chert and limestone
When it came to building things like their temples, tools were made of chert.
- When it came to building things like their temples, tools were made of chert.
Examples
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After almost an hour, Sokate picks up a small nodule of chert.
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The other berm (RBS2Op8D), in a bajo, has a nucleus of large, flat, stacked chert boulders covered with broken or "tested" chert nodules.
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"It looks like people came here periodically to get chert for their tools."
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Although they looked nothing like Clovis points, there were hundreds of chert fragments.
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"A number of people simply don't believe these flakes of chert are tools."
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Excavations showed ridges built predominantly of chert nodules and clasts.
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Most of them are in depressions and environments with jolja soil subsuites, where chert would have been easier to obtain than limestone boulders.
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The tools, like those from Schaefer and Hebior, were made of poor-quality chert culled from local cobbles in the glacial till.
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The site, located near a series of springs and large chert outcroppings in central Texas, has yielded more than 700,000 artifacts showing that Clovis-age people could also settle down.
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Two feet below a culturally sterile layer of reddish clay, he and his crew started finding clusters of broken chert, flakes, and what looked like small blades and needlelike points resembling tools found in some Asian and European excavations.
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Synonyms
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Rock made from layers of sand, mud, or broken shells
How Hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chert comes from an old English name for a 'hard' rock and is very like flint, a stone people used to make sharp tools and start fires. So think of chert as a very hard rock you can chip into arrowheads and other tools.