Single-stacked chipboard core

A single-platform blade core from Tanowo, the Police district, was discovered during excavations in 1982 on a site containing material from different Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. It was made of chalk flint with a very high-quality method used by makers representing the Palaeolithic Hamburg culture. The method enables breaking off characteristic long and narrow chips with a soft pestle. The basic procedure guaranteeing obtaining such a half-product is the appropriate preparation of the impact plane, the so-called heel, which must be repaired as it is used. The treatment is called heel freshness and allows the proper shape of the core to be maintained. The core from Tanowo was used extensively, but the immediate cause of its abandonment was one too strong impact, which caused it to break into two pieces. The collection of flint wares from Tanowo, which included a single-platform core, contains tools and blades that are characteristic of the flint-work of the Hamburg culture people, despite the absence of arrowheads typical of that culture.

Michał Adamczyk