Flake

This is a chip from an irregularly shaped core. Flakes can be either blanks for tools, successful or unsuccessful, or production waste during the design and redesign of cores, because in order to obtain a good blank it is necessary to carry out preparatory work - create a striking platform (or several), prepare a fracture front, i.e. the surface from which the future blake will be removed. Usually, well-received blanks were used immediately. The remaining defects or unnecessary chips were thrown away. Sometimes flakes and plates were used as knives without further processing: then traces of use remained on the edges - small chips.
The exhibit has a functional purpose: blank for a tool or production waste.
It is a widespread material of the Paleolithic era in Europe.