Lithic

Lithic may refer to:

  • Relating to stone tools
    • Lithic analysis, the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts
    • Lithic technology, the array of techniques to produce tools from stone
    • Lithic reduction, the process of removing flakes from a stone to make a tool
    • Lithic flake, the portion of a rock removed to make a tool
    • Lithic core, the part of a stone which has had flakes removed from it
  • Lithic stage, the North American prehistoric period before 10,000 years ago
  • Lithic fragment (geology), pieces of rock, eroded to sand size, and now sand grains in a sedimentary rock
  • Lithic sandstone, sandstone with a significant component of (above) lithic fragments