Monthly Archives: February 2012

Gravette from Aggsbach / Wachau

This is a small pointed blade (4,3 cm long) with bilaterally  abrupt retouches made of patinated hornfels or flint, It was found at   Aggsbach; Wachau, Lower Austria. Similar implements are known from the Aggsbach Gravettian B site. The Danube, given the … Continue reading

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The chaîne opératoire of flat and shoe-last adzes

This is a polished Amphibolite artifact with bilaterally, somewhat irregularly grooves on both sides found in the 1960ies at a LBK-site near Göttingen (Lower Saxony; Germany). The finder, suggested its use as an Arrow shaft polisher, but it has to … Continue reading

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Shoe-last adze from Vedrovice and social differentiation during the LBK

This a Shoe-last adze (18 cm long) from Vedrovice / Moravia, found in the 1950ies as a surface stray find. Shoe-last adzes are typical long, thin, chisel-shaped implements of the LBK in Central Europe, but were in use until the … Continue reading

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The Aurignacian in Lower Austria revisited

This is a Burin from the Krems Hundssteig site, made from Radiolarite and dating either to the Aurignacian or Gravettian. The Krems Hundssteig site is one of several sites in the Krems valley with Aurignacian material, dated between 41-31 k.a. … Continue reading

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Secondary Context

This is a boat shape axe (16 cm long) found in the stone wall of the old school at Tåsinge, DK, which was built in 1826. It is an axe in a secondary context and certainly was not sealed in … Continue reading

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Sophistication

Middle English sophisticaten, to adulterate, from Medieval Latin sophisticre, sophistict-, from Latin sophisticus, sophistic, from Greek sophistikos, from sophists, sophist; see sophist.]. Being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; “understanding volumetric concepts in flint knapping requires considerable sophistication”. The simple … Continue reading

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