bifacen.
/ˈbʌɪfeɪs/ Archaeology.
A type of prehistoric stone implement flaked on both faces. Also attributive.
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flintstonec1400
celt1748
fairy hammer1815
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
1934 A. C. Haddon Hist. Anthropol. vii. 89 Throughout all Africa a core-tool, or ‘biface’, is the oldest known technique, and the same applies to India; in Africa it developed from a chipped-pebble industry.
1937 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 3 15 The lower Palaeolithic industries may be roughly divided into two main groups:—biface cultures and flake cultures.
1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past vi. 164 The bifaces are mostly made on flakes.
1953 J. Procházka tr. B. Hrozný Anc. Hist. W. Asia, India & Crete iv. 12 The so-called flint flakes and more massive bifacial tools (‘bifaces’) have been uncovered in the early palaeolithic strata.
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