Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of knap.
Etymologies
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Examples
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These flints are hand knapped in England and are relatively uniform.
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According to Dr. Geist, Neanderthal's rough knapped stone spear heads would be perfact for slipping between the ribs of a large animal when thrust on a short spear.
Some time back Dave Petzel made an excellent post concering the last days of Neanderthal man.
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A new book from the crafter of the hyphenated superbole: "He sleep-otters under small black stones..." and later "illness's knapped letter is ribboned" in the "water-earth, the gonging."
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The knife--originally knapped stone--has been the partner of the needle since the Paleolithic era.
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"They were knapped from stone in about 30 minutes," Maroteng
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I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she wept for the death of a third husband.
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But we traded the option of blissful ignorance for lucidity with every stone tool knapped, every fire kindled, and with every novel technology teased out of nature.
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Microdrills for boring out beads, and fragments of carefully knapped bifacial knives also turned up.
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Fragments of fine bifacially knapped flint lances or knives.
Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Narmer's Temple: Week 1 Artifacts
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The problem is that their technology in East Asia was simple; archaeologists frequently have trouble distinguishing real knapped tools from similar objects splintered by natural forces.
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