Object type
pick
Culture/period
Prehistory
Materials
porphyry
Technique
carving
Mint
Production date
-300000 / -120000
Current location
MASPG
Archaeological site
Cau del Duc
Township
Torroella de Montgrí (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Baix Empordà)
Dimensions
198 x 95 x 78 mm
Description
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Trihedral pick, also known as a Montgrí pick: a pebble stone partially knapped unifacially to make a convergent distal end. It is formed on a river pebble with triangular, oval or square cross-section. It has a sharp non-centripetal point with bilateral deep or very deep extractions, uniangular with convex, straight or curved shape and bilateral symmetry. Montgrí picks are Palaeolithic stone tools identified for the first time at the site of the Tomb of the Duke of Torroella (Torroella, Baix Emporda, Girona), located on the southern slopes of Mount Saint Catherine, under Montgrí Castle. The cave was discovered and excavated first by Pericot and Pallarès, and this object was first published by Pericot and Pallarès in 1923. At the time of publication it was confused with an Asturian pick of Epipalaeolithic age, from the late Upper Paleolithic-Holocene about 10,000 years ago. Its real chronology is Middle Pleistocene, most likely about 300,000 years old.
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Omeka ID
227