Burin
69-16-342
From: Alaska | Unalakleet
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 69-16-342 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Alaska | Unalakleet |
Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
Archaeology Area | In wall, N9:W13.75 |
Locus | IP House |
Section | American |
Materials | Stone |
Description | Mottled, and banded brown and white fine-grained rock. Artifact broken (probably snapped) at oblique angle to what appears to be by longitudinal axis. Edge opposite burin-like edge ground on both surfaces to produce sharp ridge. Both surfaces ground over entire area except near base. Base (8mm wide) flaked on both surfaces, producing sharp edge. Burin-like surface (so called because surface is at right angles to plane of both surfaces) begins 3mm from base as a point and widens to width of 1.6 mm. Continues to be approximately this wide for 10.5mm, and then widens to its maximum width of 2.5mm. At junction of burin-like facet and one of surfaces, number of small use scars present. Striations across burin-like facet perpendicular to facet edge. Surface with no use scars has striations oblique to longitudinal axis. Surface with use scars has a few striations parallel to longitudinal axis. |
Length | 3.5 cm |
Width | 1.2 cm |
Thickness | 0.3 cm |
Credit Line | Alaska Unalaklett Expedition; Bruce Lutz, 1969 |
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