skrobacz scraper

Creator:	Hanna Burdon
Language pair:	din poloneză în engleză
Discipline:	-
Definition / notes:	A retouched flake tool with a thick working edge; a flake tool that has been sharpened on one edge and left blunt on other edges to allow grasping, probably used to scrape (dress) animal hides. It is called a side scraper (racloir) or end scraper (grattoir) depending on the sharpened edge; side scrapers utilize the long side and end scrapers have the scraping facet on one end. "Thumbnail" scrapers are very small; some cultures used scrapers as big as a fist. Scrapers were also used in woodworking and in shaping bone or ivory. Other types were snub-nosed, round / horseshoe. Side scrapers are typical of the Middle Palaeolithic, while end scrapers are typical of the later Palaeolithic.
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