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Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
Complete silcrete blade. Light grey in colour. Bifacial retouch on the left lateral margin. Unifacial retouch on the right lateral margin.
Broken silcrete blade, medial portion remaining. Light grey and dark grey in colour. Unifacial retouch on both lateral margins.
Broken and split silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining and split on the right lateral margin. Dark grey in colour. Unifacial retouch on the both lateral margins.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Light grey and dark grey in colour. Bifacial retouch on the right lateral margin. Unifacial retouch on the ventral surface of the left lateral margin.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Dark grey and light brown in colour. Bifacial retouch on both lateral margins.
Complete silcrete blade. Light grey and light yellow in colour. Bifacial retouch on both lateral margins.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Light yellow and light grey in colour. Unifacial retouch on the ventral surface of both lateral margins.
Broken slate knife, distal end remainig. Surface is ground on both sides. Cutting edge is sharp with a bevel on both sides. Cutting edge is curved.
Broken slate knife, proximal end remaining. Broken along cutting edge and chipped on one side. Surface is ground, with faint scratches. The haft is flat.
Broken slate knife, proximal end remaining. Knife is broken along lower cutting edge, though one side has a slight bevel is sharpened, possibly reworked. Haft end is flat. Surface is mostly ground, with some flaking towards haft end.
Complete slate knife. Surface is ground on both sides. Cutting edge is blunt and flat. Bevel present on both sides. Haft end is flat.
Silcrete drill point. Light grey.
Silcrete flake. White and mid yellow in colour.
Complete light brown silcrete drill point. Cortex present on the proximal dorsal surface. Lots of little impurities trapped within the rock.
Complete silcrete blade. White and mid grey in colour.
Complete light grey silcrete drill point. There is unifacial retouch along both lateral edges.
Complete white silcrete drill point. Unifacial retouch on the right lateral margin and bifacial retouch on the left lateral margin.
Complete silcrete blade. Dark yellow and light yellow in colour. Some weathering at proper left lateral margin. Flake scars on proper left side of dorsal surface.
Complete light grey silcrete drill point. At the proximal end of the object there is bifacial retouch on the right lateral margin and unifacial retouch on the left lateral margin. Towards the distal end there is a lot of flake scarring.
A complete mid grey silcrete drill point. There is unifacial retouch on the left lateral margin. There is flake scarring along the right lateral margin.