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axis, while generally one or more longitudinal flakes have also been removed.
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Fig. 86.—Flint core or nucleus, from which flakes have been struck, Jutland. One-half of the actual size. In my own collection.
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Figs. 87, 88, 89.—Three views of a flint flake from the Kjökkenmödding at Fannerup, in Jutland, one-half of the actual size, a represents the bulb of percussion, which is also shown by the shading in fig. 87. In my own collection.
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Many of the flint flakes were certainly never intended to serve as knives, but were worked up into saws, awls, or arrowheads. Savages use flint or chert in this manner, even at the present day; and the Mexicans, in the time of Cortez, used precisely similar fragments of obsidian.
