Tines (archeology)

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The prong is a Upper Paleolithic device form. Its basic shape is a strong cut with a drill-like tip, worked out by steep retouching, which is often slightly angled to the side and lies outside the longitudinal axis. It is not always possible to distinguish prongs and drills. The tip of the prong can be 0.2-3.0 cm long. Prong shapes are the prongs:

  • with a tip
  • with points at both ends
  • which are combined with another type of device, e.g. B. a scraper .

The prongs could be used to cut shavings to be removed from an antler. Before deploys a curved tines usefully had the Geradzinken or stylus to be worked two grooves. If the section between these furrows was sufficiently undermined, it could be tipped open with the help of driven cross wedges and cleared in the form of a long, regular chip. Antler shavings were the basis for arrow and spearheads, harpoons and bone needles .

literature

  • Rudolf Feustel : Technology of the Stone Age. Archaeolithic, Mesolithic. 2nd edition, Böhlau, Weimar 1985, p.
  • Emil Hoffmann: Lexicon of the Stone Age . 1999, ISBN 3-406-42125-3 , p. 402
  • 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.