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The Interpretation of Middle Paleolithic Scraper Morphology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2017

Harold L. Dibble
Harold L. Dibble*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Abstract

In Bordes's typology for the Lower and Middle Paleolithic, he defines four major classes of side scrapers: single, double, convergent, and transverse forms. Data from three Middle Paleolithic assemblages, one from Iran and two from France, suggest that these scraper classes may be interpreted as representing stages in reduction of flake blanks through continued reuse and remodification.

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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 109 - 117
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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