 These data can then be used to draw an understanding of socioeconomic and cultural organization.The term "knapped" is synonymous with "chipped" or "struck", but is preferred by some analysts because it signifies intentionality and process.Ground stone generally refers to any tool made by a combination of flaking, pecking, pounding, grinding, drilling, and incising, and includes things such as mortars/metates, pestles (or manos), grinding slabs, hammerstones, grooved and perforated stones, axes, etc., which appear in all human cultures in some form.