Prismatic Flint Blade Core Replica

A cone-shaped stone core with a flat striking platform on top and long, parallel scars running down all sides where narrow blades have been struck off one after another. Blade cores show one of the great advances in stone technology. From the Upper Palaeolithic onward, knappers prepared cores like this so they could remove many long, regular blades, which were then turned into knives, scrapers, burins and points. The same idea was used for obsidian blades in ancient Mesoamerica. It is an excell…

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