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The Analysis of Certain Major Classes of Upper Palaeolithic Tools: Aurignacian Scrapers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2014

Hallam L. Movius Jr.  and
Alison S. Brooks
Hallam L. Movius Jr.
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Alison S. Brooks
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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The attributes to be defined in this paper have been designed to characterize the main areas of variation of those scrapers which have been termed ‘Aurignacian’ (de Sonneville-Bordes, 1960, 29), owing to their numerical pre-eminence in Aurignacian assemblages. These attributes were worked out primarily on the Aurignacian assemblages (Levels 6–14) from the Abri Pataud, Les Eyzies (Dordogne), although to test the general applicability of the method, samples from the Grand Abri de la Ferrassie and from the Abri Castanet (Musée des Eyzies) were also considered.

As a group, Aurignacian scrapers may be distinguished from end-of-blade scrapers in that the majority of Aurignacian scrapers are manufactured on blanks produced by a non-blade technology. The term ‘Aurignacian scraper’ includes: (1) carinate scrapers (fig. 1), (2) nose-ended scrapers, (3) some shouldered scrapers (see p. 260) and (4) miscellaneous steep scrapers on flakes (fig. 2).

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , December 1971 , pp. 253 - 273
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1971

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