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    In archaeology, a grattoir de côté (French for side scraper) is a ridged variety of steep-scraper distinguished by a working edge on one side. They were...
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  • including a specialist variety also found at Ain Cheikh that were termed Grattoirs de côté. Jdeideh III is on a wooded hilltop north northwest of Aamariyeh on...
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  • chert-like flint or silicious grey limestone. Other forms found included a grattoir de côté and a nose-scraper typical of the Upper Paleolithic. Another tell was...
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    periods. Bifaces are found both with and without a cortex, along with grattoir de cote, triangular flakes, tortoise cores, discoid cores and steep scrapers...
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    Also found were stone tools for leather processing, or Quina type grattoir de côté. Specifically, stone tools from Velika and Mala Balanica caves show...
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  • common types include burins, atypical end scrapers, sidescrapers (grattoir de côté) and Mousterian points) and Levallois forms. The Levallois forms are...
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