Table 2 Stone tools from AMZ7, organised by technological group and category.
From: Regional variability in the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in southern Africa
Group | Category | Layer | Number | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GH1 | GH2 | GH3 | GH4 | GH5 | |||
Cores | Unifacial core | 1 | 9 | 29 | 42 | 1 | 82 |
Bifacial core | 3 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 1 | 41 | |
Discoid | 6 | 23 | 26 | 55 | |||
Bifacial hierarchical core | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 16 | ||
Levallois core | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | |||
Blade core | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Core on flake | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | |||
Core fragment | 1 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 33 | |
Complete flakes | Initial cortical flake | 11 | 52 | 87 | 24 | 174 | |
Residual cortical flake | 12 | 32 | 79 | 15 | 1 | 139 | |
Non-cortical flake | 48 | 293 | 476 | 70 | 8 | 895 | |
Core maintenance flake | 1 | 10 | 27 | 14 | 3 | 55 | |
Levallois flake | 2 | 8 | 14 | 24 | |||
Bipolar flake | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 14 | ||
Blades | Complete | 7 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 27 | |
Proximal | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
Medial | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
Distal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Split | 1 | 1 | |||||
Flake fragments | Fragment | 47 | 199 | 431 | 38 | 3 | 718 |
Split flake | 10 | 87 | 117 | 23 | 3 | 240 | |
Core maintenance frag. | 2 | 5 | 7 | ||||
Levallois flake frag. | 4 | 16 | 21 | 41 | |||
Retouched pieces | Minimally retouched | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | |
Laterally retouched | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 29 | |
End scraper | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 | |||
Side scraper | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||
Other scraper types | 7 | 2 | 9 | ||||
Simple notch | 1 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 33 | |
Complex notch | 1 | 3 | 12 | 16 | |||
Notched denticulate | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |||
Serrated denticulate | 1 | 1 | |||||
Single awl | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
LCTs | Cleaver | 4 | 4 | ||||
Handaxe | 7 | 19 | 1 | 27 | |||
Preform | 11 | 11 | |||||
Fragment | 2 | 9 | 1 | 12 | |||
Shatter | Cortical | 3 | 47 | 95 | 5 | 2 | 152 |
Non cortical | 13 | 140 | 290 | 25 | 2 | 470 | |
Hammerstones/cobbles | Hammerstone | 6 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 34 | |
Hammerstone fragment | 1 | 1 | |||||
Cobble fragment | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||
Unmodified cobble | 4 | 20 | 24 | 1 | 49 | ||
Total | 179 | 967 | 1872 | 430 | 35 | 3483 | |