Core Tool
Details
Context
Description
Details
Title: Core tool
Date: Lower Paleolithic
Provenance: Mudumala, Narayanpet Dist. Telangana
Medium: Quartzite – Stone
Dimensions(mm): 76 x 69 x 30
Weight: –
Source of Acquisition: Surface Collection
Credit Line: Dr. E Sivanagi Reddy, Hyderabad
Accession Number: PIF/00ST10
Context
Core tools represent some forms of human technology, typically used for chopping, cutting, or scraping during the Lower Paleolithic period. These tools were made by shaping a stone core, often through repeated flaking, to produce a functional edge.
Description
This quartzite core tool, displaying flaking marks on its surface, is bifacial but unfinished. It has a faceted butt and a roughly ovate shape, broad at one end and slightly pointed towards the other.
