Tag Archives: Burination

The pitfall of using patination as a chronologic marker

Posted on 04/17/2011 by Katzman

These are two blade cores from Moravany Banka (Late Gravettian at 22 k.a BP) in Slovakia. Both were broken and the fragments which were found in short distance to each other were glued again. While the fragments of  the first core, … Continue reading →

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Eastern Gravettian at Moravany Nad Vahom: the Banka-Site

Posted on 04/17/2011 by Katzman

These are upper Paleolithic artifacts, found early in the last century at Moravany Banka. This site has been introduced into the scientific literature by Lothar F. Zotz and Wenzel Vlk in 1939 and has been reexcavated by an international team in the … Continue reading →

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Burination continued

Posted on 08/30/2010 by Katzman

A dihedral burin and a scraper  (9 and 10 cm) from the Moravany region (“Willendorf-Kostenki culture”), The elegant dihedral burin shows marginal retouching on the proximal end, very probably for faciliating hafting of the artifact. The burin resembles  similar artifacts … Continue reading →

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Burination

Posted on 08/27/2010 by Katzman

Burination and shouldering are hallmarks of the Willendorf-Kostenki technocomplex in Middle Europe. This is a shouldered burinated artifact made of local radiolarite from Moravany-Modrovka. We do not know, if this stone tool was originally intended to serve as a burin … Continue reading →

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