Noailles graver
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The Noailles burin ( French : Burin de Noailles ) is a type of burin made of flint , which was particularly widespread in the younger Gravettia (also Périgordien supérior ) from southwest France to Italy . It is named after a cave near Noailles in the Corrèze department in France . Because of the frequency of Noailles burin in the younger Gravettia, this period is also known as Noallien in southern France . This is reflected, for example, in the layer description of the Abri Pataud , which is authoritative for the chronostratigraphy of the Upper Palaeolithic .
Typology
This stylus shape is made on thin cuts , blades or concave end retouching. The characteristic feature are the narrow stylus tracks on the longitudinal edges, the distal end of which was previously defined by a so-called “stop notch”. The stop notch is a notch which is pressed into the longitudinal edge before the stylus is hit and which leads to a controllable distal end of the stylus path or the stylus lamella at this point. The stylus tracks are very narrow, with a maximum width of 2 mm. Often there are two stylus tracks on each longitudinal edge of the Noailles stylus, but there can also be several narrow tracks next to one another on one edge.
Noailles burins were probably used to work on wood, bones, antlers or ivory , with the roughly right-angled edge between the distal side and the burin track being used to scrape and notch the surface of the material. These edges often show characteristic signs of wear.
Other characteristic graver types of Gravettian are the Raysse graver and Corbiac graver .
literature
- Joachim Hahn : Recognizing and determining stone and bone artifacts. Introduction to artifact morphology (= Archaeologica venatoria. 10). Institute for Prehistory and others, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-921618-31-2 .