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- and other early humans, but rarely by Homo sapiens. Their technical name (biface) comes from the fact that the archetypical model is a generally bifacial...
- or overshot flaking technique, that quickly reduces the thickness of a biface without reducing its width.[citation needed] The Clovis point differs from...
- previous research; including a chert crescent tool and a leaf-shaped chert biface that supported an estimated date of 10,000 - 7,000 YBP, and a metate feature...
- biface points (finished on both sides). The early versions are both are made with percussion knapping. The name Lupemban is applied to certain biface...
- Quartzite biface hand axe from Stellenbosch, South Africa...
- Biface of Menchecourt-les-Abbeville, exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 1867....
- African biface artifact (spear point) dated in Late Stone Age period...
- overshot flaking, which is defined as flakes that "during the manufacture of a biface are struck from prepared edges of a piece and travel from one edge across...
- 102. White, Mark J. (18 February 2014). "On the Significance of Acheulean Biface Variability in Southern Britain". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society...
- facets to the platform; Lipped, a platform type resulting from soft hammer biface reduction; and Crushed, which occurs when the platform was crushed beyond...