Museum complex

Knife-shaped blade

Middle Paleolithic
Mousterian
Flint
8 x 4 cm
Excavations by F.M. Zavernyaeva
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This is an elongated chip-blank for tools. On one side on the surface negatives from two also elongated chips are visible. The edges converge into a pointed end. There are no traces of special processing along the edges, but on one edge there are numerous small chips and gouges, possibly from use. There is a large puncture damage on the second edge. Perhaps it was a blank for a tool, but sometimes the elongated flakes were used as a tool without additional adjustment, like knives.
It has a functional purpose: blank for a tool or a tool itself.
It is a typical object of the Paleolithic era in Eurasia.

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