Side Scraper
Racloir
EU201
From: France | Charente | La Quina
Curatorial Section: European
| Object Number | EU201 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mousterian |
| Provenience | France | Charente | La Quina |
| Locus | B2 |
| Period | Mousterian |
| Date Made | 158000-38000 BCE |
| Section | European |
| Materials | Flint |
| Description | Original Card: Racloir with two patinas, one reddish and yellowish, very ancient, of the primitive Mousterian; the other, gray, fresh, not rolled by the water and of the Upper Mousterian (H. Martin). France, Charente, La Quina B2. Mousterian Age. Revised Card: Flint side scraper - Also retouched on part of opposite edge. Gray-white patination. Made on elongated flake of older date with light orange patination. France, Charente, La Quina B2. Mousterian. |
| Length | 8 cm |
| Width | 3.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with Henri-Martin, 1913 |
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