I have one HUGE pet peeve about archaeological literature. Why does every person studying flint or obsidian call them 'stone tools' in literature. Stone tools includes more than cutting/scraping tools you doofus! Give my pounding, polishing, grinding, pecking, abrading, softening, etc. etc. ground stones love TOO! I refuse to have my rocks be second-class artifacts because they deserve better. I want to not have to download a wholeass paper about stone tool use in the Neolithic of Lower Saxony and THEN discover that it's JUST THE FLINT. Just because ground stone tools/macrolithic tools/ground stones are maybe not entirely picture-perfect does not mean that they deserve to be ignored in favor of sleek flint tools.











