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Description: | Blade knife. Very light greyish brown. No. 3. Class 15a.
A broken fragment of a simple blade-knife, with traces of utilization but no trimming on its lateral edges. The specimen illustrates the longitudinal type of preparation of the striking platform. Small longitudinal flakes have been struck off. This led to the thinning of the bulbar end and so the pressure produced by the main 'blow' was allowed to travel longer along the main axis of the blade (when it was still on the parent core) instead of being diffused laterally. The result is that the blade obtained is a long one.
Armant cemeteries Areas 1000 & 1100. Unstratified. AR31. 1100.
Material: Stone
Material: Chert | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.521418 | Go to resource |
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