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a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point

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Metallic surfaces are engraved by cutting grooves into them with a burin and a small hammer, following the design already traced or drawn onto the surface.
Gunsmiths are losing traditional engravers
Endscrapers -including only a pair of nucleiform ones-, perforators and simple burins are found in rather low percentages in the Solutrean, while continuously retouched pieces are abundant--as in the Initial Magdalenian.
Nucleiform burins are present in Solutrean-point-bearing levels and increase thereafter in the early Magdalenian.
The Solutrean levels lack raclettes and transversal burins (Renard, 2012).
A considerable degree of variability--in terms of the representation of such artifacts as blades, bladelets [including backed ones], flakes, raclettes, transversal burins, antler points with serpentiform "pseudoexcision" decoration, etc.--characterizes "the" Badegoulian in the regions where it is recognized and there is no clear temporal directionality to its markers.
Conjuntos de artefactos del Magdaleniense inicial en la Cueva de El Miron (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, Espana): un informe preliminar
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