Museum complex

Flake

Middle Paleolithic
Mousterian
Flint
7.7 x 6.1 cm
Excavations by D.M. Tushabramishvili
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This flake is a large and massive chip of irregular shape. There are no traces of secondary processing on the edges. One end is broken. Negatives of earlier large chips, including lamellar ones, remained on the surface. The proximal end (the place where the blow was struck when making this item) is narrow and uneven, the opposite one is broken off. The edges and ends show signs of wear, most likely late damage rather than signs of use.
It has a functional purpose - presumably it can be a production waste.
This is a widespread material of the Paleolithic era in Eurasia.

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