Levallois plate
Middle Paleolithic
Mousterian
Flint
10,1 x 3,3 cm
Excavations by D.M. Tushabramishvili
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The Levallois plate is an elongated chip with the so-called Levallois core, which could have been a blank for elongated tools. Its edges are not very smooth, they are subparallel. The exterior surface has traces of negatives from previous chips. There is no regular retouch of the edges, but there are small negatives of chips on both edges. Perhaps these are traces of use as a knife (?) for working on soft material (butchering animal corpses or processing hides).
It has a functional purpose - the plate served as a blank for elongated tools - knives, points, etc., or could be used as a cutting tool (knife) without special adjustments.
It is a widespread material of the Paleolithic era in Eurasia.
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