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reworking: Flaking applied to a
broken or dulled tool so as to reclaim it for additional use. Sometimes called
Lateral Rejuvenation, reworking was the characteristic means by which an
implement was resharpened. Alternate and bifacial beveling, serration, and other
diagnostic features of blade renewal are very important to age determination as
well as for the purpose of assembling attribute clusters for typological
analysis. Typically reworked blades or points have a different outline than
their former pristine outline. Reworking of lithic objects was employed by early
man due to the general lack of high quality lithic materials.
Source: LITHICS-Net,
Glossary of Lithics
Terminology
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