SOLUTREAN
LAUREL-LEAF POINT This bifacial point was found several years ago in a rock shelter called Le Ruth on the Vezere River in southwestern France. It dates to somewhere stone tool assemblage is most famous for the first truly thin bifaces made by highly skilled have been fully developed by this time. It would have been equipped with hard and soft percussion and smaller pressure flaking tools for removing the smaller last stage finishing flakes and resharpening as a knife. It measures 5 13/16 inches (14.8cm) long. |