Burin-end-scraper

This is a combined tool (i.e. a tool combining several functions) made of a black opaque flint plate chip. A convex scraper blade is made at one end, with an abrupt retouching. At the other end an angle burin is made: such tools were obtained by applying two oblique strikes on the blank’s end. The intersection of the chips formed a narrow working edge. The tool is quite massive. Based on the rather significant traces of use of the scraper blade, we can assume that it was used quite intensively. Such tool would be used for various operations within the same type of activity, such as working with hides, wood processing, and bones. For instance, animal skins can be scraped with the scraper and cut with a burin, while the bone can be cleaned off meat and tendon remnants and then disassembled to obtain bone tools’ blanks. The functional purpose: this object combining two tools was used to work with hides and hard materials. This is a common Paleolithic tool.