Core
Middle Paleolithic
Mousterian
Flint
6.6 x 6.1 cm
Excavations by F.M. Zavernyaeva
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The disc-shaped core is a massive chip, which on one side is covered with negatives of smaller chips. Its edges were modified with fine chips off and a special platform was created from which blows were applied to remove small chips, mainly flakes. These chips then served as blanks for making tools. The small size of the item itself and small facets on part of the edge suggest that it could also have been used as a tool itself.
It has a functional purpose: used to obtain blanks for tools.
It is a widespread material of the Paleolithic era in Eurasia.
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