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lissoir/smoothing tool

Header: lissoir/smoothing tool
Also known as: lissoir/smoothing tool
Scope note: Elongated tool on which one or both ends and sometimes the sides are slightly bevelled, rounded and smoothed often to a visible polish produced by rubbing on a soft material. They are made on pieces of bone, antler or ivory with a thin sub-rectangular cross-section. Lissoirs appear in the Aurignacian and persist throughout the Upper Palaeolithic.
Broader terms: x9696; tool/implement

5 related objects

lissoir/smoothing tool

Museum number: 1864,1226.752 |
Cultures/periods: x101584 Magdalenian |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Courbet Cave

lissoir/smoothing tool

Museum number: 1864,1226.1189 |
Cultures/periods: x101584 Magdalenian |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Courbet Cave

lissoir/smoothing tool

Museum number: 1864,1226.887 |
Cultures/periods: x101584 Magdalenian |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Courbet Cave

lissoir/smoothing tool

Museum number: 1864,1226.889 |
Cultures/periods: x101584 Magdalenian |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Courbet Cave

lissoir/smoothing tool

Museum number: 1987,0202.6971 |
Cultures/periods: x41735 Neolithic/Bronze Age |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Grimes Graves