A very small blade or blade-like object; in archaeology, a small razor-sharp flake of stone used by prehistoric people as a cutting tool.
From Old English 'blæd' (blade) + '-let' (diminutive suffix meaning small). The suffix '-let' creates a miniature version of the base word.
Archaeologists get genuinely excited about bladelets because they show incredible human innovation—early people discovered that knapping stone in a specific way produced tiny, incredibly sharp cutting edges better than anything else available!
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