Keeled Scraper

31-56-2262

From: Palestine | Mugharet el Wad

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number 31-56-2262
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Middle Aurignacian
Provenience Palestine | Mugharet el Wad
Archaeology Area Level D2
Locus Level D 2
Section Near Eastern
Materials Flint
Description

Semi-steep. Pointed, narrow, elongated. Sides also used as scraping edges. Made on end of slice, struck from base in cleaning up keeled scraper for a new scraping surface, bulb of which is removed by lateral flaking. Its scraping surface is formed by flake removed from side of slice. Cortex remaining on upper surface of scraper.

Length 2.7 cm
Width 5.1 cm
Thickness 2 cm
Credit Line Distribution from the American School of Prehistoric Research; Dorothy Garrod, 1931

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