| 单词 | gravette point |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGravette point Name of a long, narrow knife-like flint of Upper Palaeolithic date, having a sharp cutting-edge and blunted back. Usually Gravette point. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of flintstonec1400 celt1748 fairy hammer1815 axe1851 flint-flake1851 stone-axe1864 flake-knife1865 scraper1865 thumb-flint1865 tool-stone1865 saddle quern1867 fabricator1872 grattoir1872 hammer-stone1872 tribrach1873 flake1875 hand-axe1878 pick1888 turtle-back1890 racloir1892 eolith1895 pebble chopper1895 palaeotalith1897 tranchet1899 point1901 pygmy flint1907 microlith1908 Gravette1911 keeled scraper1911 lissoir1911 coup de poing1912 end-scraper1915 burin1916 rostro-carinate1919 tortoise core1919 blade1921 axe-adze1925 petit tranchet1926 tournette1927 pebble tool1931 raclette1932 biface1934 cleaver1935 thumbnail scraper1937 microblade1959 linguate1966 1911 W. J. Sollas Anc. Hunters viii. 218 A new form of implement came into use. This is a pointed flake, carefully retouched all along the cutting edge; it..is known as the type of La Gravette. 1911 W. J. Sollas Anc. Hunters viii. 218 (caption) The La Gravette Point. 1920 A. H. Quiggin & A. C. Haddon Keane's Man Past & Pres. 12 Finely worked knife-like blades (Châtelperron point, Gravette point). 1921 R. A. S. Macalister Text-bk. European Archæol. I. 368 The Gravette point..is a flake having one edge treated with secondary chipping and the other left sharp and untouched. 1921 R. A. S. Macalister Text-bk. European Archæol. I. 369 In some Gravette knives the chipped edge is not straight, but has a kind of hump. 1932 Antiquity 6 364 A number of points of gravette character..combine with the burins to suggest an upper Palaeolithic facies. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. V. 448 Straight knife-blades with blunted back (La Gravette blade), steep scrapers, end-of-blade scrapers, burins or chisels, usually with straight working-end, have been found. 1963 R. Carrington Million Years of Man xii. 147 One of the uses of their gravettes was to decorate the ivory of the slaughtered mammoths. < as lemmas |
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