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MS2637K

From: Italy

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS2637K
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Italy
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chert
Description

This piece is a waste flake retouched along one edge, creating a convex side scraper. Cortex on one edge indicates that the core-pebble was water-worn. No date is impossible, but since the scraper is small, we would tend to attribute a post-paleolithic date to it.

Length 3.6 cm
Width 2.2 cm
Thickness 0.8 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1896

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