Talk:Ground stone

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Archaeology Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Archaeology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Archaeology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchaeologyWikipedia:WikiProject ArchaeologyTemplate:WikiProject ArchaeologyArchaeology articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

I removed the claim that ground stone tools were used as hoes, due to doubts raised off-wiki here: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2v7k8a/cool_stone_age_phone_cases/cofg4yp Melchoir (talk) 00:18, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This article misleadingly incorporates knapped stone technologies into some good information about ground stone tools. Obsidian is not a 'ground stone' tool, and ground stone tools are not flaked, although many peoples ground flints to some degree. They are two exclusive classes of production and artifacts. Needs Heavy Editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.231.151.168 (talk) 13:49, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the article confuses groundstone tools with flaked tools and needs to be edited. 206.177.43.73 (talk)

"In prehistoric Japan, ground stone tools appear during the Japanese Paleolithic, possibly predating adoption elsewhere in the Neolithic by 25,000 years." - This is followed by a citation of a book published in 1996, before the revelation of the infamous Japanese Paleolithic hoax in 2000. May need to be updated or removed. 2601:986:8002:EDB0:884E:9C62:8863:5460 (talk) 19:35, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]