- and
other early humans, but
rarely by Homo sapiens.
Their technical name (
biface)
comes from the fact that the
archetypical model is a
generally bifacial...
- or
overshot flaking technique, that
quickly reduces the
thickness of a
biface without reducing its width.[citation needed] The
Clovis point differs from...
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three modes of reduction:
bifaces (including
projectile points), blades, and flakes.
Projectile points fall into the
biface reduction mode.
Clovis projectile...
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Quartzite biface hand axe from Stellenbosch,
South Africa...
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African biface artifact (spear point)
dated in Late
Stone Age period...
- In archaeology, a
cleaver is a type of
biface stone tool of the
Lower Palaeolithic.
Cleavers resemble hand axes in that they are
large and
oblong or U-shaped...
-
Palaeolithic sites were discovered. To make
microblades by this technique, a
large biface is made into a core
which looks like a tall
carinated s****er. Then one...
- side
gullies that
drain into the river. They
included around 50
varied bifaces accredited to the
Acheulean period, some with a
lustrous sheen, now held...
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facets to the platform; Lipped, a
platform type
resulting from soft
hammer biface reduction; and Crushed,
which occurs when the
platform was
crushed beyond...
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biface points (finished on both sides). The
early versions are both are made with
percussion knapping. The name
Lupemban is
applied to
certain biface...
