Flake
Middle Paleolithic
Mousterian
Flint
8,7 x 5,8 cm
Excavations by D.M. Tushabramishvili
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A flake is a chip blank for tools. This item is irregularly triangular in shape. Negatives of earlier chips and a primary crust with a rough surface remained on the surface. Perhaps it was a blank for a tool, but it is more likely that it was simply a production waste, an unsuccessful chip. There are no traces of any processing along the edges, but there are small chips and edge fractures, most likely accidental.
It has a functional purpose - a blank for a tool or a waste product.
It is a widespread material of the Paleolithic era in Eurasia.
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