The microburin technique is a special procedure for cutting up lithic blades which yields fragments that can be used in the manufacture of utensils. The...
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that the microburins had a functional use as a type of microlithic burin. However, he later came to realize that the manufacturing technique was different...
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Microlith (section Microburin technique)
truncated retouching, which leaves a very typical piece of waste, called a microburin. The microliths themselves are sufficiently worked so as to be distinguishable...
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curved and arched backed bladelets) and the intensive use of the microburin technique was a trait foreign to previous Levantine industries, but instead...
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of influences coming from North Africa to the Levant, citing the microburin technique and "microlithic forms such as arched backed bladelets and La Mouillah...
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was originally thought to have originated in Africa because the microburin technique was not yet known to be much older in the eastern Levant. Currently...
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microliths, microburin, scalene triangles, trapezoids and chisel-ended arrowheads and small flint blades made by the pressure-technique. The term is...
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Retouch was largely replaced by the "backing" technique and coincided with the emergence of microburin methods, which involved snapping bladelets on an...
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characterized in most areas by small composite flint tools: microliths and microburins. Fishing tackle, stone adzes, and wooden objects such as canoes and bows...
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diorite based industry, with few microburins present archaeologically. SEBILIAN II and III tools were made using a technique indicative of a microblade industry...
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