Museum complex

Levallois flake

Middle Paleolithic
Mousterian
Flint
7.8 x 6 cm
Excavations by D.M. Tushabramishvili
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This flake is irregular in shape with irregular retouch along the edge. On one of the surfaces (the so-called exterior or dorsal surface) there are negatives of chips taken from the same striking area as the object itself. Most likely, this is an unsuccessful chip from a Levallois core, which could have been of a more regular subtriangular shape and used for manufacturing and simply as a tool. Small irregular chips on the edges, probably signs of use.
It has a functional purpose - presumably it could be an unsuccessful blank for a tool.
This is a widespread material of the Paleolithic era in Eurasia.

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