Flake

Flake

A long flake of brown-grey chalcedony, which is curved in an elongated ‘S’ shape, with a pronounced dorsal ridge. The striking platform is visible as a triangular area at the top of the stone. The exterior surface (ventral) shows two long flake scars, and some minor chipping (likely unintentional) to the ridge). The interior surface (dorsal) shows substantial damage, with many small flakes removed from the ridge. It is possible that this tool is burin or burin flake.
The example is not particularly diagnostic, but appears to broadly match the stone technologies produced in the Levant between the Middle Paleolithic and Neolithic.
This flake is one of three collected by Lt Col Dr David Gifford Croll near Amman in October, 1918 and donated to the Queensland Museum in February 1943.

40000 BC - 6000 BC

C.006.003

QM E40139.3

© Queensland Museum, Peter Waddington.

Collected by Col. Dr David Gifford Croll CBE VD MID MB Amman, Jordan, 1918.
Donated by Col. Dr David Gifford Croll CBE VD MID MB to the Queensland Museum, February 1943.

Queensland Museum, Brisbane

Shea, J. (2013). Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139026314

al-Nahar, M. (2013). The First Traces of Man. The Palaeolithic Period (<1.5 million – ca 20,000 years ago). In Ababsa, M. (Ed.), Atlas of Jordan: History, Territories and Society. Presses de l’Ifpo. doi:10.4000/books.ifpo.4877

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Mr James Donaldson

Dr Brit Asmussen