Keeled Scraper
31-56-1497
From: Palestine | Mugharet el Wad
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 31-56-1497 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Atlitian |
| Provenience | Palestine | Mugharet el Wad |
| Archaeology Area | Level C |
| Locus | Level C |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Flint |
| Description | Steep and narrow. Cortex remaining on both sides. Double patination: made on older keeled scraper by removing flake from lower part of keel, leaving older patination on the upper part of the keel and on the scraping surface. Apex shows reworking and could also have served as scraper. Retouched on side adjoining keel near scraping surface. Lower part of dorsal edge could also have served as scraper. |
| Height | 5.7 cm |
| Length | 3.9 cm |
| Width | 1.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Distribution from the American School of Prehistoric Research; Dorothy Garrod, 1931 |
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