Partially refitted core. This block of flint was knapped in habitation W11, one of the oldest at Étiolles. The sizes of the blades produced on it were exceptional: the knapper extracted a crested blade nearly 50 cm long and a series of very long blades between 30 and 40 cm long. Several blades haven’t been found as they were taken away from the camp. 

Upper Palaeolithic, Magdalenian, around 12,500 BCE, Étiolles (Essonne), “Les Coudray”. Conserved at the Musée de Préhistoire d’Île-de France (Seine-et-Marne). Property of the department of Essonne.

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