Lunate
Lunate is a crescent or moon-shaped microlith. In the specialized terminology of lithic reduction, a lunate flake is a small, crescent-shaped flake removed from a stone tool during the process of pressure flaking.
In the Natufian period, a lunate was a small crescent-shaped stone tool that was sometimes used to harvest grasses.
In archaeology a lunate is a small stone artifact, that has a sharpened straight edge and a blunt crescent shaped back.
The word originates from the Latin word lunatus which means to bend like a crescent, and from luna meaning moon in Latin.
A lunate object can be typically used as a decorative piece or as a stone tool.
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