Scraper, combination end and side
- Title:
- Scraper, combination end and side
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Date:
- ca. 10,000-2000 BCE
- Site:
- Rudkøbing, Langeland, Fyn, Denmark
- Location:
- Rudkøbing, Langeland, Fyn, Denmark
- Country:
- Denmark
- ID Number:
- Anthr1882_007_0089_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 882.7.89
- File Name:
- Anthr1882_007_0089_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Danish (culture or style)
Stone Age - Style/Period:
- Neolithic
Mesolithic
Upper Paleolithic - Work Type:
- scrapers (finishing tools)
- Materials/Techniques:
- stone
flint (rock) - Subject:
- denmark
antiquities (object genre)
Neolithic
scandinavia
tools
prehistoric
Mesolithic
europe
northern
paleolithic period - Measurement:
- 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.6 (centimeters)
- Description:
- Combination scraper (end and side). Mottled yellow-grey-brown flint. Produced by unifacial pressure flaking, on the dorsal surface, all around three sides of a thick flake or irregular blade, resulting in the characteristic steep scraper-edge at both sides and the distal end. The thickness of the original flake gives this a character similar to a keeled scraper, but it is not as regular or centered as that should be. 19th-century handwriting (now partially obliterated) read "Rudköbing / Langeland / 1871 (K [subscript]2)". This type of tool is typical of the Upper Paleolithic, but could have been produced and/or used any time from then into the Neolithic.
- Bibliography:
- Jørgen Jensen, The Prehistory of Denmark (Methuen, 1982)
Deborah Olausson & Helle Vandkilde, Form, Function & Context: Material Culture Studies in Scandinavian Archaeology (Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2000)
Christopher Tilley, An Ethnography of the Neolithic: Early Prehistoric Societies in Southern Scandinavia (Cambridge, 1996)
Anders Fischer & Kristian Kristiansen (eds), The Neolithisation of Denmark: 150 Years of Debrate (JR Collis, 2002)
Helle Vandkilde, From Stone to Bronze: The Metalwork of the Late Neolithic and Earliest Bronze Age in Denmark (Jutland Archaeological Society, 1996) - Archival Collection:
- Danish Neolithic stone tools
- Format:
- Image
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