uniface
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Sometimes flakes are not just debitage (waste flakes removed in the course of making something).
Proverb : "Everybody looks. What you've got to do is learn to see."
This is a really nice example of going from the first mode to the second, written by a beginner, noting the features of a particular type of flake that identify what it is and why it was made.
(She could/IMO should have noted that, as shown in the last picture, a striking platform was carefully isolated & relieved in order to enable it to be struck successfully).
https://windyhillexcavation.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/anatomy-of-a-mesolithic-core-correction-flake/
FWIW
Proverb : "Everybody looks. What you've got to do is learn to see."
This is a really nice example of going from the first mode to the second, written by a beginner, noting the features of a particular type of flake that identify what it is and why it was made.
(She could/IMO should have noted that, as shown in the last picture, a striking platform was carefully isolated & relieved in order to enable it to be struck successfully).
https://windyhillexcavation.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/anatomy-of-a-mesolithic-core-correction-flake/
FWIW
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