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10:59 Sep 5, 2010

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Archaeology

Spanish term or phrase: de percusores, losas, molinos y alisadores fabricados

., durante esta ocupación se utilizaron y abandonaron una cantidad significativa de artefactos macrolíticos. Se trata básicamente de percusores, losas, molinos y alisadores fabricados con materias primeras obtenidas

"hammers, tiles, mills and smoothing blades.." ??

ellengreen

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hammerstones, slabs, mortars and smoothing stones

fionn

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29 mins confidence:

hammerstones, slabs, mortars and smoothing stones

Explanation:
I'm not so sure about 'losas' being slabs, but pretty sure they're not tiles. That's a much more advanced technology (what period is this?). I'm imagining some sort of surface for working on perhaps?
Smoothing stones could also be 'whetstones'.
You may find this lexicon useful:
http://www.archive.org/stream/internationalcon00inte/interna...

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Note added at 30 mins (2010-09-05 11:29:32 GMT)
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Sorry added the wrong http for the lexicon:
http://www.tiwanakuarcheo.net/9_glosarios/Copy of LexicoSpaE...

Example sentence(s):

archaeologists unearthed 42 arrowheads and spear points and 89 stone tools including a large number of mortars.
Direct striking of the core with a hammerstone tends to give thick bulbous flakes;

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddle_Ranch
Reference: http://www.answers.com/topic/percussion-flaking

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