lissoirn.
Archaeology.
A smoothing, polishing tool.
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celt1748
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axe1851
flint-flake1851
stone-axe1864
flake-knife1865
scraper1865
thumb-flint1865
tool-stone1865
saddle quern1867
fabricator1872
grattoir1872
hammer-stone1872
tribrach1873
flake1875
hand-axe1878
pick1888
turtle-back1890
racloir1892
eolith1895
pebble chopper1895
palaeotalith1897
tranchet1899
point1901
pygmy flint1907
microlith1908
Gravette1911
keeled scraper1911
lissoir1911
coup de poing1912
end-scraper1915
burin1916
rostro-carinate1919
tortoise core1919
blade1921
axe-adze1925
petit tranchet1926
tournette1927
pebble tool1931
raclette1932
biface1934
cleaver1935
thumbnail scraper1937
microblade1959
linguate1966
1911 W. J. Sollas Anc. Hunters viii. 214 A small object, about the size and shape of the human tongue, possibly the end of a ‘lissoir’ (smoothing implement).
1911 W. J. Sollas Anc. Hunters xii. 368 The ivory ‘lissoir’ or smoother of the Eskimo..is represented in the Magdalenian industry.
1932 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 62 265 Skin-rubbers were made from antler of Dama Mesopotamica, cut obliquely and smoothed, in the manner of the Magdalenian lissoir.
1937 D. A. E. Garrod & D. M. A. Bate Stone Age Mt. Carmel I. i. ii. 15 Bone points and pierced animal teeth and a lissoir of Dama Mesopotamica antler.
1964 New Scientist 9 Apr. 88/1 A single, well-used bone-tool came to light; it appears to be a sort of ‘lissoir’ for working leather thongs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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