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...

102. White, Mark J. (18 February 2014). "On the Significance of Acheulean Biface Variability in Southern Britain". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society...

Quartzite biface hand axe from Stellenbosch, South Africa...

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...

biface points (finished on both sides). The early versions are both are made with percussion knapping. The name Lupemban is applied to certain biface...

Biface of Menchecourt-les-Abbeville, exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 1867....

side gullies that drain into the river. They included around 50 varied bifaces accredited to the Acheulean period, some with a lustrous sheen, now held...

in France. The Acheulean was characterised not by the core, but by the biface, the most notable form of which was the hand axe. The Acheulean first appears...

East Wenatchee Clovis Site C. J. Ellis and J. C. Lothrop, "Early Fluted-biface Variation in Glaciated Northeastern North America", PaleoAmerica 5, no....

they are typically given credit for the innovation. A Mode 2 tool is a biface consisting of two concave surfaces intersecting to form a cutting edge all...

facets to the platform; Lipped, a platform type resulting from soft hammer biface reduction; and Crushed, which occurs when the platform was crushed beyond...

In archaeology, a cleaver is a type of biface stone tool of the Lower Palaeolithic. Cleavers resemble hand axes in that they are large and oblong or U-shaped...

of fire-starting ability includes pyrite residue on a couple of dozen bifaces from late Mousterian (c. 50,000 years ago) northwestern France (which could...

collection's 14,000 objects are the oldest items in the museum: flint bifaces which date to 700,000–200,000 BCE. There are also many pieces made for...

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...

example of a device designed to manage power is the hand axe, also called biface and Olorgesailie. A hand axe is made by chipping stone, generally flint...

underground. The site also has yielded many tools, including pottery, bifaces, bifacial fragments, lamellar blades, a lanceolate projectile point, and...

Stone Age"), as well as cleavers and other bifaces (associated with the earlier Acheulean). Though bifaces and blades are rare (respectively less than...

Blank or Blanks may refer to: Blank (archaeology), a thick, shaped stone biface for refining into a stone tool Blank (cartridge), a type of gun cartridge...

Biface handaxe found by Boucher de Perthes...

Neolithic tool of the Qaraoun culture found at Mtaileb I - Thick and heavy biface, retouched all over with jagged and irregular edges. Light grey and streaky...

Palaeolithic sites were discovered. To make microblades by this technique, a large biface is made into a core which looks like a tall carinated scraper. Then one...

Stone tool or other artefact that has only been worked on one side, cf. biface. unit 1.  In stratigraphic excavation, a context. 2.  In British commercial...

years by surface beryllium-10 (10Be) dating. The Rock Wren Biface, a large well-formed biface tool recovered from a younger nested-inset alluvial deposit...

Paleolithic Age, indicated by the archaeological findings of Acheulean bifaces in the Mandovi-Zuari basin. However, evidence suggesting the region's ancient...

Lower Paleolithic biface viewed from both its superior and inferior surface...

shrinking much. Bifacial cores are usually further reduced into trade bifaces, biface blanks, or bifacial tools. Bifacial cores have been recognized as a...

Picture of two Lower Paleolithic bifaces...