Stone point
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Georgia, Chekiani site
Middle Paleolithic period
Mousterian culture
Stone (andesite)
15,5 х 4,5 cm
From: surface finds of Z.K. Kikodze (Museum of History of Georgia), 1983–1984
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Sharp-pointed stone – is an elongated subtriangular tool with two modified dorsal ridges. That tool was multifunctional and was probably used for different operations like cutting, fracture, piercing soft and hard materials. For example, it could be used for killing beasts, butchering its flesh, or cutting wood or bone.
Exhibits' purpose of use – polyfunctional (piercing, cutting, scraping) tool. Uniqueness – typical tool of the end of Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods.
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