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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2592
Bòbila de Bellsolà - La Mogoda
Prehistory

honey coloured flint core

MAC BCN-016409

Object type
core
Production date
-4200 / -3200
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Prehistory
Discovery location
Bòbila de Bellsolà - La Mogoda
Materials
flint
Township
Santa Perpètua de Mogoda (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Vallès Occidental)
Technique
carving
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
65 x 85 mm
Description
Core of “honey” flint used to produce blades with the pressure technique. This type of flint comes from the High Provence, France, far from the place where it was found. This shows that there was a long-distance exchange network at that time. The peculiar forms that these cores take, the result of the process of gradually removing small laminas or blades, has led to the so-called popular name for them of as 'goat leg's cores' owing to their great similarities with the hooves of the animal. This core was recovered together with another core, an axe and a skeleton.

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