Levallois core
Middle Paleolithic
Mousterian
Flint
7.4 x 5.9 cm
Excavations by D.M. Tushabramishvili
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Core is a kind of primary blank from which chipped blanks for tools were obtained. The core itself is not a tool. Judging by its small size and shape, it has been heavily worked on - many chips have been removed from it. Some of them were chips of the core itself, and some were blanks. The edge of the striking platform is massively hit. Levallois cores, characteristic of Mousterian, were specially adjusted with chips so that the final blank would have the desired shape, for example, sub-triangular.
It has a functional purpose - the core served as a blank for obtaining chips from which tools were made.
It is a typical item of the Paleolithic era in Eurasia.
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