Wear and damage on stone tools

Aksum

Ancient · artifact

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Examples of wear and use-damage on lithic artefacts: a - chalcedony crescent, note the heavily worn tip and portion of the sharp edge; b, c - a unique chalcedony point with possible impact-damage at the tip on the ventral surface,from Baahti Nebait; d - worn tip of a utilised quartz

Original catalogue wording

Examples of wear and use-damage on lithic artefacts: a - chalcedony crescent, note the heavily worn tip and portion of the sharp edge — Fig. 399

Fig. 399 Examples of wear and use-damage on lithic artefacts: a - chalcedony crescent, note the heavily worn tip and portion of the sharp edge; b, c - a unique chalcedony point with possible impact-damage at the tip on the ventral surface,from Baahti Nebait; d - worn tip of a utilised quartz

Date
Not recorded in the catalogue
Object type
Sculpture & fragments
Recorded place
Aksum
Printed source
HabeshaHistory printed corpus