microlith

microlith
/muy"kreuh lith/, n. Archaeol.
a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, esp. during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times. Cf. macrolith, tranchet.
[1875-80; MICRO- + -LITH]

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