Knockback

Characteristics of a stone artifact made of flint, above the hump (globe)

The striking hump (globe) is created on the tee of man-made stone artifacts from the Stone Age . The worked stone, usually flint , is broken up with a hammer stone to make blades, axes, scrapers or other stone tools. At the point of impact of the striking stone, a circular pressure point and a conical break, the striking cone, form on the tee. This is followed by a bulging zone, the so-called impact hump. The striking technique can also be recognized by the shape of the hump .

literature

• Lutz Fiedler: Forms and techniques of Neolithic stone tools in the Rhineland. Contributions to the prehistory of the Rhineland III, Rheinische Ausgrabungen 19, 1979
• Lutz Fiedler: Beaten and polished. Documentation of stone artifacts. Archaeological Monuments in Hesse 104, published by the Department for Pre u. Early history in the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse and the Archaeological Society in Hesse eV, 1992