Keeled Scraper
31-56-2262
From: Palestine | Mugharet el Wad
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 31-56-2262 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Middle Aurignacian |
| Provenience | Palestine | Mugharet el Wad |
| Archaeology Area | Level D2 |
| Locus | Level D 2 |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Flint |
| Description | Semi-steep. Pointed, narrow, elongated. Sides also used as scraping edges. Made on end of slice, struck from base in cleaning up keeled scraper for a new scraping surface, bulb of which is removed by lateral flaking. Its scraping surface is formed by flake removed from side of slice. Cortex remaining on upper surface of scraper. |
| Length | 2.7 cm |
| Width | 5.1 cm |
| Thickness | 2 cm |
| Credit Line | Distribution from the American School of Prehistoric Research; Dorothy Garrod, 1931 |
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