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Microlithic industry panel with short frontal blades and scrapers

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Civic Museum of Palaeontology and Palaeo-ethonology “Decio de Lorentiis”. Backed blades and short frontal scrapers. Flint. Upper Palaeolithic. 11-10,000 years.

The backed blades have a triangular section and steep retouch; one of these has an oblique transversal cut; another stands out for its trapezoidal section.
The short front scrapers with a flat deep direct retouch.
During the Final Epigravettian period in Italy, regional diffusion complexes developed which differ significantly from one another. Amongst the regional characters the following can be determined: The increase of scrapers, particularly the short frontal forms, the development of the truncated backs and sometimes also geometrical ones.

Further information
Identificazione
  Inventory number: 83795, 83796, 83797, 83798, 83799, 83800, 83801, 83802, 83803
Reperimento
  Place of discovery: Baia Uluzzo, S. Caterina, Nardò (Le)
Oggetto
  Class and ware: Stone industry
Cronologia
  Period: Upper Palaeolithic
  Datazione certa secolo: 11,000-10,000 years
Definizione culturale
  Cultural milieu: Epigravettian
Dati tecnici
  Material: Flint
  Technique: Chipping
  Width: Lamette: max 1,1 - min 0,7 - Grattatoi: max 1,3 - min 1,1
  Length: Lamette: max 1,9 - min 1,7 - Grattatoi: max 1,8 - min 1,5
  Thickness: Lamette: 0,5 - Grattatoi: 0,7
  Varie: Units cm
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