Biface preform
This object is known as a preform and represents a stage in the making of a type of stone tool known as a biface. When completed these tools had sharp, strong edges because chips of stone were knocked off both sides of the original piece to thin it.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 54/1948/138
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- jasper (heat-treated)
- Common Name
- biface preform
- Simple Name
- implement
- Production County
- East USA
- Production Country
- United States of America
- Production Date
- Archaic
- Production Year Low
- 6500-5500BP
- Production Year High
- 1000BP
