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    Hand axe (redirect from Biface)
    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...
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    or overshot flaking technique, that quickly reduces the thickness of a biface without reducing its width.[citation needed] The Clovis point differs from...
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    three modes of reduction: bifaces (including projectile points), blades, and flakes. Projectile points fall into the biface reduction mode. Clovis projectile...
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    Quartzite biface hand axe from Stellenbosch, South Africa...
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  • facets to the platform; Lipped, a platform type resulting from soft hammer biface reduction; and Crushed, which occurs when the platform was crushed beyond...
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  • 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...
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  • African biface artifact (spear point) dated in Late Stone Age period...
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    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...
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    102. White, Mark J. (18 February 2014). "On the Significance of Acheulean Biface Variability in Southern Britain". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society...
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    Biface of Menchecourt-les-Abbeville, exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 1867....
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