Museum complex

Retouched flake

Middle Paleolithic
Mousterian
Flint
8.3 x 5.9 cm
Excavations by F.M. Zavernyaeva
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This is a large massive chip of irregular oval shape with slightly pointed ends. There are small flat chips on one of the ends, reducing the thickness of the item. The edges of the item are not processed, but in some areas there are small irregular facets of different sizes, and at the second, non-flattened end there is even a small area with retouch. The object was probably used as a knife or similar tool for working with non-hard material.
It has a functional purpose: blank for a tool or a tool itself.
It is a typical tool of the Middle Paleolithic era in Eurasia.

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