Side Scraper

31-56-3144

From: Palestine | Mugharet el Wad

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number 31-56-3144
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Upper Levallois | Mousterian
Provenience Palestine | Mugharet el Wad
Archaeology Area Level G3
Locus Level G 3
Section Near Eastern
Materials Quartzite
Description

Made on large thick blade with hinge fracture. Slightly concave edge retouched to form scraper. Cortex remaining on opposite side of upper face whose edge shows utilization. "Carraway seed" patination

Length 9.4 cm
Width 5 cm
Credit Line Distribution from the American School of Prehistoric Research; Dorothy Garrod, 1931

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