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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2621
Abric Romaní
Prehistory

Levallois core

MAC BCN-026102

Object type
core
Production date
-110000 / -40000
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Prehistory
Discovery location
Abric Romaní
Materials
flint
Township
Capellades (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Anoia)
Technique
carving
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
57 x 76 x 20 mm
Description
Core for Levallois flakes in grey-blue flint and with a flat-convex section. It has a surface with negatives of several extractions that correspond to a recurrent centripetal exploitation characteristic of the use of the Levallois method. This knapping method is typical of the Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) and produces flakes with standardized morphologies that were used later by retouching their shape into sidescrapers, denticulates, endscrapers and points, among other tools.

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