Double-platform core
Georgia, Chekiani site
Lower Paleolithic
Acheulean
Obsidian
16 х 12 cm
From: surface finds of Z.K. Kikodze (Museum of History of Georgia), 1983 – 1984
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A core served to obtain chipped blanks for the further manufacture of tools. This core has an irregular triangular shape. The blank was a very massive chip or a whole obsidian nodule. The knapping of flakes was carried out from two striking platforms in different directions. Removal negatives, large and small, remained on the reduction surface. The negatives of the chipped blanks are large and irregular.
Small removal negatives could have been left behind from chips to adjust the working surface of the core.
There are also negatives of shortened chips - flakes, as well as elongated, lamellar ones. Since the object was found on the surface during the collection of artifactual remains, traces of rounding are visible on it.
It is a widespread material of the Paleolithic era in Europe.
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