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    retouched flake tools and blades, and debitage related to late-stage core and biface reduction and tool kit maintenance. The Miller complex is further defined...
    21 KB (2,065 words) - 22:26, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paisley Caves
    Tradition points are morphologically distinct from Clovis points, with narrow bifaces, shoulders, and thicker, convex bases instead of the longer prismatic blades...
    16 KB (1,670 words) - 02:06, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tautavel Man
    retouched tools such as scrapers, rather than more iconic macro-tools such as bifaces (hand axes). In beds G and F, they may have been practicing ritual cannibalism...
    32 KB (4,071 words) - 03:17, 30 August 2024
  • dates to pre-10,500 BC. The whole industry is characterized by burins and bifaces with the upper-level (Chivateros II) containing long, keeled, leaf-shaped...
    8 KB (972 words) - 19:15, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tabun Cave
    excavations of the cave yielded over 1,900 complete and partial bifaces. The bulk of the biface assemblage can be attributed to the Late Acheulian and Yabrudian...
    10 KB (1,004 words) - 23:46, 4 September 2024
  • notched scrapers, as well as are what described as "heavy duty" choppers and bifaces. Radiocarbon dates on available material are from 19820 ± 750 B.P. Recent...
    15 KB (1,843 words) - 16:46, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cave of Aroeira
    investigated from 1998–2002 revealing a rich lithic assemblage with Acheulean bifaces associated with faunal remains and two human teeth: Aroeira 1 (a left mandibular...
    7 KB (795 words) - 20:22, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diepkloof Rock Shelter
    University of Bordeaux. At Diepkloof Rock Shelter (DRS), from 70 to 74 ka bifaces and bifacial points are present while less complex forms such as backed...
    13 KB (1,365 words) - 12:21, 12 August 2024
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    beaks, etc.), pebbles cut and rare bifaces (less than 1 for 1000 tools). At the top of the set III (layer E), the bifaces are proportionally more, which led...
    12 KB (1,514 words) - 13:21, 7 October 2024
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    sides so as to form a sharp edge, were known as Abbevillian handaxes or bifaces, but recently the term 'Abbevillian' is becoming obsolete as the earlier...
    92 KB (9,439 words) - 13:29, 27 September 2024