{"id":2185,"date":"2026-07-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/science-word-of-the-day-lithics\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:00:00","slug":"science-word-of-the-day-lithics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/science-word-of-the-day-lithics\/","title":{"rendered":"Science word of the day: Lithics"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><strong>Science word of the day: <\/strong>Lithics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pronunciation: <\/strong><em>LITH&#8217;-iks<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What it means: <\/strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\">archaeology<\/a>, lithics refers to artifacts made of stone. Scientists used to think <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> was the only human species to make stone tools. But like many oversimplified stories about human evolution, this one turned out to be a bust. Humans in Indonesia were making sharp-edge stone flakes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/human-evolution\/1-5-million-year-old-stone-tools-from-mystery-human-relative-discovered-in-indonesia-they-reached-the-region-before-our-species-even-existed\"><u>1.5 million years ago<\/u><\/a>, before our species even existed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to use it in a sentence: <\/strong><em>Lithics<\/em> preserve well, so scientists base a lot of what we know about ancient civilizations on their stone tools, while artifacts such as textiles or leather rot away. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you crack our science word of the day puzzle, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\"><u><strong>Chain Word<\/strong><\/u><\/a><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-W2rM4W\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Latest from Live Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science word of the day: Lithics Pronunciation: LITH&#8217;-iks What it means: In archaeology, lithics refers to artifacts made of stone. Scientists used to think Homo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}