Tip (archeology)

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Point refers to an ancient tool with one or two points. However, it does not say anything about the actual device with a variety of more detailed designations.

Isturitz tip

These take place, for example, according to:

Shape ( blade tip )
Shape and method of manufacture (pointed blade).
Site ( Lautscher tip , Isturitz tip),
Production method ( Levallois tip ),
Culture stage ( Gravette tip ),
Material ( flint tip )
Use ( projectile point ),

This category includes Abri-Audi-tips, Aurignac tips , Châtelperron tips, Clovis spikes, Folsom Tips, Font-Robert-tips, hand made lace , Hamburger tips, harpoons , cusps , According shaving tips , Lyngbyspitzen, arrowheads , stem tips and back knife .
For the shaft see: shaft (prehistory and early history) .

literature

Emil Hoffmann: Lexicon of the Stone Age (Munich 1999) p. 158. ISBN 3-406-42125-3 .
Stefan Unser: The flint technology of the Stone Age. Schillinger, Freiburg 1983, ISBN 3-921340-88-8 .
François Bordes: Hand ax and mammoth - The Paleolithic. Kindler, Munich 1968.