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microburin

Noun

Meaning

microburin (plural microburins)

A characteristic waste product from the ancient manufacture of lithic tools: a fragment of a lithic flake or blade that shows on its upper face the beginnings of a notch terminating in an oblique flection that ends in a very acute trihedral apex.

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Examples

Ofer Bar-Yosef has argued that there are signs of influences coming from North Africa to the Levant, citing the microburin technique and “ microlithic forms such as arched backed bladelets and La Mouillah points.” Source: Internet

The microburin technique was used. Source: Internet

They were all made from blades or from microblades (nearly always of flint), using the microburin technique (which implies that it is not possible to conserve the remains of the heel or the conchoidal flakes from the blank). Source: Internet

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