Glossary for "The Precontact Digital Experience"
- Adze: a chopping or cutting stone tool similar to an axe, but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle; see Groundstone Tools and Canoe Making in Virtual First Ohioans
- Atlatl: a spearthrower; see Development of the Atlatl, Virtual First Ohioans
- Archaeoastronomer: an archaeologist who studies the alignment of mounds, earthworks, and other material remains to hypothesize how people have understood, conceptualized and used the phenomena in the sky in past cultures
- Axe: a chopping or cutting groundstone tool; see Groundstone Tools and Canoe Making in Virtual First Ohioans
- Bannerstone: a perforated stone having usually two symmetrical wings that could have been used as a weight attached to an atlatl and is often found in precontact burials; see Bannerstones, Virtual First Ohioans
- Birdstone: a stone artifact often made from slate that resembles a bird and has ; see Function of Birdstones , Glacial Kame Birdstones , and Birdstone Uses in Virtual First Ohioans
- Cache Blades: Large, seemingly ceremonial blades or projectile points, often found in groups in mound burial sites; see Obsidian Objects in Virtual First Ohioans
- Celt: A precontact stone or metal tool or weapon with a beveled cutting edge; see Adena Celts, Virtual First Ohioans
- Cultural time period: a period defined by basic patterns of settlements, lifeways, and technology; see Ohio's Ancient Cultural Periods, Virtual First Ohioans
- Domesticated: the process of wild plants evolving into cultivated crops through selection and selective breeding
- Flake scar: surface left on a core of chert after a flake has been removed from it during flintknapping
- Flintknapper: using a very specific technique to chip off pieces of stone to make stone tools; see Distribution of Flint in Ohio Area and Flint Workshops in Virtual First Ohioans
- Gorget: Stone or shell ornament, normally with two or three holes; see Adena Ornaments, Virtual First Ohioans
- Grinding stone: a flat or concave stone used for grinding nuts and grains with a pestle; see Cooking, Virtual First Ohioans
- Grooved axe: a chopping or cutting groundstone tool, with 3/4 or full grooves, where it is attached to a wooden or bone handle; see Groundstone Tools and Canoe Making in Virtual First Ohioans
- Groundstone tools: precontact tools such as axes, adzes, chisels, pestles and celts, made out of cobbles of granite, gabbro, diorite, gneiss, porphyry, and slate; see Groundstone Tools, Virtual First Ohioans and More on Groundstone Tools, Virtual First Ohioans
- Hearth: cooking area around a fire; see Cooking, Virtual First Ohioans
- Hunter-gatherers: a society where food is obtaining by collecting wild plants and hunting wild animals; see Hunting and Gathering, Virtual First Ohioans
- Megafauna: large mammals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period; see Paleoindian Environment , Mastodon Butchering , and Mastodon Habitat in Virtual First Ohioans
- Midden: cultural refuse or deposition built up at a site (from Early Peoples of Indiana)
- Net sinker: a notched stone tied to fishing nets, also known as a net weight.
- Pecking and grinding: the process of shaping a stone tool by using a harder stone to pound and create small indentations, followed by polishing with sand and water; see Groundstone Tools, Virtual First Ohioans
- Pestle: a groundstone tool with a rounded end, used for crushing and grinding nuts and grains; see Cooking, Virtual First Ohioans
- Projectile points: stone darts or arrows hafted to spears or javelins, or used as knives; see Archaic Projectile Points and Projectile Point Names in Virtual First Ohioans
- Plummet: stone fishing weight
- Scraper: a chert or flint flake that has been retouched along one or more edges, typically used for scraping purposes; see Distribution of Flint in Ohio Area and Flint Workshops in Virtual First Ohioans
- Sedentary: a society that lives in groups permanently or semi-permanently in one location.
- Type site: an archaeological site used to define a particular archaeological culture or other typological unit
- Wear patterns: projectile points often show evidence of their use (for scraping, cutting, hammering, drilling, digging, abrading, and piercing) by fractures, dulling, and missing tips