Microburin

Quick meaning: Microburin is a noun meaning A characteristic waste product from the ancient manufacture of lithic tools: a fragment of a lithic flake or blade that shows on its upper face the beginnings of a notch terminating in an oblique flection that ends in a very acute trihedral apex.

Meaning

A characteristic waste product from the ancient manufacture of lithic tools: a fragment of a lithic flake or blade that shows on its upper face the beginnings of a notch terminating in an oblique flection that ends in a very acute trihedral apex.

Example Sentences

It is also worth noting that although the NEG II inhabitants were familiar with the microburin technique (MBT), they did not use it systematically.

Word Forms

• microburins

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include burin, burrstone, buhrstone, burstone, gravette, macrolith.

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