Look ---> See

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/

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So what does this piece tell you?
Is that concave area at the top of the first picture the "percussion bulb"?
Making it the ventral (inner side)? (I think I have that wrong)
Or is this just debitage?
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First pic is a negative bulb of percussion from the removal of a small flake. Bulb of percussion is in pic 2. Not well defined but that's the bulb from the removal of your whole piece from a larger core. Gary
 

First pic is a negative bulb of percussion from the removal of a small flake. Bulb of percussion is in pic 2. Not well defined but that's the bulb from the removal of your whole piece from a larger core. Gary

Thanks, I learned at least one thing today.
 

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