Le Grand Pressigny Livre de Beurre Metal Print

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Le Grand Pressigny Livre de Beurre

Le Grand-Pressigny is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

There is a Chalcolithic flint mine. It produced big sized chunks of an unusual caramel-coloured Turonian silex which appears to have been highly prized across Europe with samples found in the Pyrenees, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Blocks of flint and unfinished blanks were traded, as well as finished tools.

In the Neolithic, those big chunks were shaped into an oval core which could be turned into several 30-40 cm long blades by indirect percussion, as the ones seen in the image, thus maximizing the length of edge obtained per stone nucleus.

Archaeologists would later find that oval shape similar to that of the "pounds of butter " (livre de beurre) sold in France in the early 20th century and the name ended up catching.

All the blades in the image therefore come from the same and only core. This is an amazing techniqu...

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