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Legends:
251: Livre de beurre blade core. Colors have been modified to enhance the first blade.
252: Livre de beurre blade core. Colors have been modified to enhance the second blade. The first one is not visible
253: Livre de beurre blade core. Colors have been modified to enhance the third blade. The 2 others are not visible
254: Livre de beurre blade core. Colors have been modified to enhance the fourth blade. The 3 others are not visible
255: Livre de beurre core bearing the scars of the 4 blades it gave
256: Genuine blade core. blade scars are visible on the top, remnants of the first crest on the lower part. Private collection
257: Genuine blade core. blade scars are visible on the top, remnants of the first crest on the lower part. Private collection
258: Genuine blade core. Note the blade scars and the typical prismatic shape. Stray find. Private collection
259: Replica of a mousterian Levallois flake (-300.000 to -30.000). The flake almost in position on the core.
260: Replica of a mousterian Levallois flake (-300.000 to -30.000). The flake was slightly set apart from the core.
261: Replica of a mousterian Levallois flake (-300.000 to -30.000). The flake is slightly lifted.
262: Replica of a mousterian Levallois flake (-300.000 to -30.000). The flake is partially lifted so one can see its remnant scar on the core.
263: Replica of a mousterian Levallois flake (-300.000 to -30.000). The flake is lifted so one can see its remnant scar on the core.
264: Large boxwood billets are used for debitage of long blades. Both had approximately the same size, but the upper one suffered more wearing.
265: Flintknapper's tools. Soft billets. Boxwood billets, deer and reindeer antlers billets and punches. On the right side are the pressure flakers (copper). Leather pads are for protection
266: Flintknapper's tools. Quartzites and granit hammerstones of different sizes. The bigger ones are used for spalling large blocks. The smaller ones (quartzite and sandstone) are also used as platforms abraders
267: Triple overshot. The fracture takes a too large part of the core. Note the thickening of the blades (striking platform is on top). Didactic failure of the webmaster
268: Overshot. The fracture took a large part of the core (percussion point is on top). Note the typical spoonish shape. Ruined by the webmaster
269: Borer on a flint blade. Superior face view
270: Borer on a flint blade. Lower face view
271: Both faces of a borer on a flint blade
272: Close view of black obsidian spall. The parasite flake scar is typical of hammerstone knapping. Note the greenish veins in the matter
273: Both faces of a flint borer on a blade tip.
274: Black obsidian spall close view. Note the greenish veins and the hackles on the top.
275: Both faces of a solutrean shouldered point knapped by Bernard