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Pilot Study of Burin Use-Wear from Shanidar Cave, Iraq

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Pages 30-41 | Published online: 01 Apr 2016
 

ABSTRACT

Microscopic use-wear is present on all four burins studied. The four heavily patinated chert artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic Baradostian horizon, radiocarbon date between 28,000 and 33,000 B.P. Burin usage originates and extends from the trihedral bit to adjacent facets; probable haft wear traces are present on three of the four tools.

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