Levallois one-sided single-platform core
Georgia, Chekiani site
Lower Paleolithic
Acheulean
Obsidian
11 x 9 cm
From: surface finds of Z.K. Kikodze (Museum of History of Georgia), 1983 – 1984
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A core is a kind of blank from which chipped blanks for future tools were obtained. The core itself is not a tool. This core has an irregular triangular shape. Its striking platform is wide, flattened, but has no special design. Several large elongated removal negatives set in one direction are visible on the reduction surface. The blanks obtained from the object were apparently massive and lamellar. The reverse side of the core, the so-called counter-front, is flattened, and the blanks have not knapped off from it. The surface of the object has traces of rounding.
It is a widespread material of the Paleolithic era in Europe.
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