A Middle Palaeolithic bone tool from Crimea (Ukraine)

• Autores: Ariane Burke, Francesco D'errico
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 82, Nº 318, 2008, págs. 843-852
• Idioma: inglés
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  • A fragment of equid tibia found with a Mousterian assemblage in a rockshelter in the Crimean peninsula is carefully examined. The authors show that it has been knapped like flint to produce a tool probably at a time when stone resources were becoming exhausted. This tool is thus the product of a Neanderthal response to a local need as well as proof that the technological properties of bone were known