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Burin

Briansk region, Briansk district, Eliseevichi site
17-14 thousand years ago
Upper Paleolithic
Flint
5.3х2.5 cm
Excavations by L. V. Grekhova, 1978
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This tool is a truncation burin with oblique retouching, made on a sub-triangular lamellar flake. A burin is a tool used for working bone and wood, and like modern burins, it has a short, but very sharp, working cutting edge. At the end of the blank, a special pad is made using a large retouch, and with one blow, a small chip is removed from the edge of the blank. This creates a sharp working edge at the corner of the site, and the negative of the chip can be used to cut grooves, make depressions, or cut off unnecessary parts in the manufacture of horn, bone, soft mineral rocks, and wood. Both tools and other objects, such as figurines and jewelry, are made with the help of these incisors. It is likely that during the processing of hides and the manufacturing of clothes from hides, incisors were also used. The tool's main purpose was to cut grooves, shape, and treat the surfaces of objects made from organic materials such as bone, tusks, wood, and hides. This is a common find at sites from the Upper Paleolithic period in Eurasia.

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