The beginning of the Middle Paleolithic Age is marked by the appearance of a new type of flint tool that was used to cut up animal carcasses and scrape their skins. This seemingly crude gadget represents a true innovation: instead of being shaped from a single nodule, it rather was one of several short, thick flakes removed from a core.
Provenance: Yabrūd.
Material: flint.
Age: Paleolithic (100,000 BC).
Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.8 cm.
Photo: Jacques Lessard.
Collection of the National Museum of Damascus.
Michel Fortin, Syria, Land of Civilization. Les Éditions de l'Homme, Musée de la Civilisation de Québec 1999.
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