chert
noun
, ˈchat
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, ˈcha- \
adjective
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The tools—six sharp brown chert flakes and a scraper—make a much clearer case. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia," 29 Oct. 2018 McKillop and Aoyama examined the edges of 20 chert blades from the site under a microscope. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Small Mayan saltworks could have supplied thousands, preserved food," 9 Oct. 2018 The 150-foot-long and 75-foot-tall surface is one of the largest chert slickensides exposures in California. — Thomas Graham, SFChronicle.com, "Walking these seven hills of San Francisco a peak experience," 28 June 2018 And in his final moments, the Iceman ran out of chert to fix his tools. — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, "The Final Hours of the Iceman’s Tools," 21 June 2018 The chert that Otzi used was mined from three different areas, which were as far as 40 miles away, Dr. Wierer said. — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, "The Final Hours of the Iceman’s Tools," 21 June 2018 His antler retoucher, for instance, bore the scars of striking chert at an oblique angle in the direction a right-handed flintknapper would use. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Ötzi the Iceman spent his last days trying to repair his tools," 22 June 2018 The blade was made of a hard, dark rock called chert that is similar to flint. — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, "The Final Hours of the Iceman’s Tools," 21 June 2018 At Middle and Lower Paleolithic sites across Europe and the Middle East, for example, archaeologists have found several flint and chert flakes with lines etched into the stones' chalky outer layer—the cortex. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Neanderthals etched a message on this 36,000-year-old stone tool," 3 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'chert.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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